Joe Studwell

Journalist and author on East Asian business and development; founding editor of the China Economic Quarterly.

How Asia Works argues that Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China grew by sequencing three policies - household-scale land reform, export discipline imposed on manufacturers, and finance directed to both - and explains why Southeast Asian states that skipped the sequence stalled. Asian Godfathers documents how the region's tycoon conglomerates earn returns from licences, property and cheap deposits rather than from operating skill.

3 books of their own