The author notes that the literature on the role of the state in industrial process is now immense and rapidly growing. This intense interest has been fuelled by the stunning economic success of East Asia. Now rapid economic growth has spread to a number of Southeast Asian nations. In these...

Less developed nations are plagued by significant economic coordination problems. Solutions to these problems will be developmental (in an economic sense) if national economic interests dominate government policy-making. The construction of a national economic interest in economic growth occurs...