Confucian culture and economic development in East Asia

Il Gon Kim

pp. 250-266

in: Peter Koslowski (ed), The theory of ethical economy in the historical school, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

Since World War II, many countries liberalized themselves from colonial state and realized their political independences. But it was a quite different matter from political independence to achieve economic development, because their economic stagnation continued for a relatively long time. So, there had been appeared the assertion that economic development could only be done in the region of Christianity.