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Authority And Academic Scribblers: The Role Of Research In East Asian Policy Reform

Edited by Sylvia Ostry
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.
Spring 1992
Authority And Academic Scribblers: The Role Of Research In East Asian Policy Reform
Edited by Sylvia Ostry
ICS Press
1991
181 pp.
$12.95
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These essays on eight countries throw only a little light on the book's potentially interesting subject, but the editor makes good use of her own experience to suggest some criteria and conclusions.

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