The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe

by Nick Eberstadt and Nicholas Eberstadt

Book Overview

Viewed from afar, North Korea may appear bizarre, or positively irrational. But as Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates in this meticulously researched volume, there is a grim coherence to North Korea's political economy, and a ruthless logic undergirding it--one that unreservedly subordinates economic welfare to augmentation of political power. Thus, paradoxically, even as official policies and practices consign the DPRK economy to a perilous realm between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412810523
• ISBN13: 9781412810524
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"