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Pasuk Phongpaichit
Emeritus professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok; writes on Thailand's economy, politics, corruption and inequality.
The Thailand books track one economy through a credit-fuelled boom, the 1997 devaluation and the political conflict that followed, measuring the informal economy and the business-political networks instead of assuming them away. Anyone underwriting Southeast Asian exposure finds here the local mechanics linking capital, patronage and policy.
7 books of their own
Books they wrote 7
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- A History of ThailandChris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit, 2005
- Thailand's Boom and BustPasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker, 1998
- Thailand's CrisisPasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker, 2000
Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit · 2005 · The standard modern history, strong on business families and state capital.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 1998 · The definitive account of the bubble and the baht devaluation that started the Asian crisis.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2000 · Follow-up on the IMF programme, bank restructuring and who paid for it.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 1995 · The pre-crisis baseline: how the boom economy was actually structured.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2004 · Telecoms billionaire turned prime minister; the clearest study of business-politics fusion in Thailand.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Sungsidh Piriyarangsan · 1994 · Field research on how money actually moves through Thai officialdom.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2016 · Concentration of wealth, land and market power among a few families.