How and why has it managed to succeed? Book review: Lee Keun. Economic catch-up and technological leapfrogging: The path to development and macroeconomic stability in Korea. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. 392 p.

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Keywords: the Republic of Korea; economic catch-up; technological leapfrogging; factors of growth; productivity growth

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Vitalii A. Meliantsev, Anna A. Gorozhankina How and why has it managed to succeed? Book review: Lee Keun. Economic catch-up and technological leapfrogging: The path to development and macroeconomic stability in Korea. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. 392 p.. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2018. N 4, p.99–107

Vitalii A. Meliantsev Anna A. Gorozhankina

Abstract

In what follows we will try to assess the contribution of Lee Keun – the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize and Professor of Seoul National University – to the theory of breakthrough economic development, based on the case of the Republic of Korea (RK).