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Taiwan

Asia Pacific

An economy whose equity market is essentially one supply chain, semiconductors, sitting under a geopolitical risk no other market carries; the English-language business literature beyond the chip industry is thin.

Books 9Experts 1Recommenders 4

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  1. Chip WarChris Miller, 2022
  2. How Asia WorksJoe Studwell, 2013
  3. Governing the MarketRobert Wade, 1990
Governing the MarketGoverning the Market
T1 Governing the Market
Robert Wade · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Taiwan's state steered industry, making the case for directed East Asian growth.

How Asia WorksHow Asia Works
T1 How Asia Works
Joe Studwell · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why some Asian nations grew rich: land reform, export-led industry, directed credit.

“it's a good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” — Bill Gates

Source: Gates Notes review of How Asia Works

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison

Chip WarChip War
T1 Chip War
Chris Miller · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

How chips became the key to economic and military power, made in a few chokepoints.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Beyond Late DevelopmentBeyond Late Development
T2 Beyond Late Development
Alice H. Amsden, Wan-wen Chu · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Taiwan moved into higher-value industries after its first industrialisation.

Struggle for TaiwanStruggle for Taiwan
T2 Struggle for Taiwan
Sulmaan Wasif Khan · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Current account of the cross-strait risk that prices every Taiwanese asset.

Taiwan: A New HistoryTaiwan: A New History
T3 Taiwan: A New History
Murray A. Rubinstein · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Taiwan's history, including its land reform and base of small firms.

Silicon ShieldSilicon Shield
T3 Silicon Shield
Craig Addison · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

The argument that Taiwan's chip industry protects it from Chinese attack.

Taiwan: A Political HistoryTaiwan: A Political History
T3 Taiwan: A Political History
Denny Roy · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How great powers and local people fought over Taiwan, through the party-state era.

Taiwan's Economic TransformationTaiwan's Economic Transformation
T4 Taiwan's Economic Transformation
Tai-chun Kuo, Ramon H. Myers · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

The policies that moved Taiwan's economy from agriculture to electronics.

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