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Capital Mobility and Distributional Conflict in Chile, South Korea, and Turkey

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Why did many emerging countries pursue risky financial opening policies in a reckless manner, even after the painful example of the Latin American debt crisis? Unlike trade liberalization, which has mostly been beneficial in emerging countries, the removal of capital controls has led to boom-bust patterns in many countries. It is not simply driven by class or sectoral interests, nor is it just a result of ideational changes in policy-making circles, or international pressure. Gemici argues that to fully understand the motivation for these policies, we need to take into account distributional struggles prior to their enactment. In this book, Gemici shows that conflictual distributional relations significantly increase the likelihood of capital account liberalization. Through in-depth comparative case studies, he also demonstrates that countries which liberalize in the most comprehensive manner tend to be the countries characterized by a high degree of distributional conflict. The case studies – Argentina, Chile, South Korea , and Turkey – have been chosen to maximise variation in distributional relations and to escape regional clustering, showing quite different trajectories of capital account liberalization. This will be of great interest to readers in sociology, international political economy and heterodox economics, as well as specialists in the countries examined.

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ISBN: 9781032336244
Publication date: 13th June 2022
Author: Kurtulu Gemici
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 232 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Genres: Development studies
Human geography
Politics and government
Society and culture: general
Sociology
Political economy
Development economics and emerging economies