This book does a great deal in identifying the differences in the development of the crises in different national settings, as well as differences in resolutions. The various authors contribute case studies from a range of countries that provides enough diversity to allow for interesting comparisons for the reader. . . . Upper-division undergraduate students through professionals.

Choice Reviews

This is an unusually engaging volume, produced by an impressive team of younger scholars with fresh and powerful arguments. It offers an innovative theoretical framework for understanding economic policy reform by combining economic structure, interests, and institutions. In this, it moves us beyond the familiar pattern of emphasizing one variable to the exclusion of others. The theoretical framework is used to great effect in explaining the most important international economic event of recent times, the international financial crisis of 1997-98. The volume offers a forceful combination of theory and empirical case-work from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe and is an exciting reminder that high-caliber political science need not be analytically narrow or deal only with issues of minor consequence.

Andrew MacIntyre, University of Califonia, San Diego

This useful volume provides a comparative examination of the political conditions that gave rise to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-99. It nicely complements the extensive economic literature on the crisis, reminding us that economic policy is generated by political processes, not by unitary decision makers.

Journal of Asian Studies

This is an unusually engaging volume, produced by an impressive team of younger scholars with fresh and powerful arguments. It offers an innovative theoretical framework for understanding economic policy reform by combining economic structure, interests, and institutions. In this, it moves us beyond the familiar pattern of emphasizing one variable to the exclusion of others.

Giustificativo

An interesting and thoughtful collection. A useful addition to the literature, and indeed, the editors are to be congratulated on bringing together this collection of materials which certainly enriches the current literature.

Progress In Development Studies

This valuable set of studies should leave the reader with no doubts about the need to combine political and economic analysis in order to understand and help to prevent international financial crises.

Thomas D. Willett, Claremont College