Singapore
A city-state run explicitly as a business: sovereign investment vehicles, a controlled land supply and a legal system built to attract capital. Reading its founders is the fastest route to understanding the model.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- From Third World to FirstLee Kuan Yew, 2000
- How Asia WorksJoe Studwell, 2013
- The Economic Growth of SingaporeW. G. Huff, 1994
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 1
Books 9
Lee Kuan Yew · 2000 · The founder's own account of how the development strategy was chosen.
Joe Studwell · 2013 · Land reform, export discipline and financial repression as the growth recipe.
W. G. Huff · 1994 · The economic history: entrepot trade, forced saving and state-directed investment.
Lee Kuan Yew · 1998 · The first volume of the memoirs, covering independence and the early state.
C. M. Turnbull · 2009 · The standard scholarly history of the entrepot.
Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne · 2013 · Lee's own strategic judgements, edited into a short reference.
Henri Ghesquiere · 2006 · An IMF economist on which policies were actually causal, and which transferable.
Jothie Rajah · 2012 · How law is used instrumentally; important for assessing legal risk.
Linda Lim · 2015 · Retrospective essays on the limits of the model and what comes next.