Dear All,

 

I am pleased to share information regarding my recently published book, Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia (Palgrave 2018)

 

Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia explores the manner in which world-scale processes of marketization have registered across East Asia and its implications for welfare and inequality. The book

 

·        Develops a comparative political economy analysis of welfare and inequality across ten East Asian countries.

 

·        Elaborates a constructive critique of theoretical and policy literature on welfare and inequality and theoretical methods for locating changes in welfare policy, institutions, and inequality at the intersection of local, national and global processes and relations.

 

·        Sets forth a research agenda that brings welfare and inequality toward the center of comparative political economy by construing countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features.

 

Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia is available in various formats through Palgrave Macmillan (here), major public and university libraries (here), and bookstores (including but not limted to Amazon). Those with questions or queeries or who encounter difficulty accessing the book can contact me at  [log in to unmask]

 

Further details on the book are provided below. I will look forward to seeing many of you at the upcoming EASP conference and on other future occassions.

 

In the meantime, thank you for your interest and best regards,

 

Jonathan London

Leiden University

 

 

 

About Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia

 

The world-scale expansion of markets and market relations ranks among the most transformative developments of our times. We can refer to this process by way of a generic if inelegant term – marketization. This book explores how processes of marketization have registered across East Asia’s diverse social landscape and its implications for patterns of welfare and inequality. While there has been great interest in East Asia’s economic rise, treatments of welfare and inequality in the region have been largely relegated to specialist literatures. Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative approach to political economy that construes countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features. 

 

 

About Jonathan D. London

 

Jonathan D. London is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Leiden University. His recent publications include Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Palgrave) and journal articles in The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Social Science and Medicine, and The Annual Review of Political Science. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.

 

 

Reviews

 

“London's impressive book systematically analyses the complex relationship between inequality and welfare and the politics and social interests that shape economic and social policies. It breaks new theoretical ground by locating patterns of welfare and inequality within the specific strategies of accumulation and growth that have underpinned the integration of East Asian states into the global political economy.  The book provides for an ambitious and broad ranging research agenda that locates welfare policy, institutions, and inequality at the intersection of local, national and global processes, and associated social forces and interests. It moves debates on welfare and inequality away from a narrow institutionalist focus on the analysis of families of welfare regimes toward the analysis of continuity and change in the power and interests that define political economies and shape social policies, welfare, and inequality over time. This innovative and stimulating book is compulsory reading.” (Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University, Australia)

 

“Jonathan London, a leading scholar of social change in Vietnam, has produced a careful and richly textured study of the relationship between market liberalization, welfare and inequality in East and Southeast Asia that situates these changes within their proper social and historical context. Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia provides a fresh perspective on these issues and will spark a long overdue debate about the social implications of economic liberalization in developing Asia.” (Jonathan Pincus, The Rajawali Foundation)

 

“The welfare regimes of East Asia are less understood than those of Western Europe in particular, despite the substantial and growing significance of the region in the global economy. Jonathan London's comparative study takes a substantial step towards remedying this while also connecting debates on welfare regimes to broader debates in comparative and global political economy. The analysis is sensitive to the general shift from welfare regimes aimed to protect citizens from the market to regimes of social protection that aim to complement and strengthen it.  His nuanced and systematic analysis is set in a sophisticated theoretical framework, and will be an enduring benchmark for studies of the region. Students of East Asia and of comparative welfare regimes will benefit enormously from reading it.” (Paul Cammack, University of Manchester, UK)

 

 

Book Cover and product details
	·        ISBN 978-1-137-54106-2 ·        Digitally watermarked, DRM-free ·        Included format: EPUB, PDF ·        ebooks can be used on all reading devices ·        Immediate eBook download after purchase