Description: In Asian Contagion: The Causes and Consequences of Asia's Financial Crisis, Karl D. Jackson, director of the Southwest Asia Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, has commissioned a group of leading experts on business and economic policymaking in Asia in an effort to provide the most up-to-date overview available on the Asian downturn. Each author considers one nation -- Japan, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam -framed by an introductory chapter on the roots of the crisis and a conclusion discussing a cultural framework for looking at Asian financial institutions, today and in the uncertain time ahead. The chapters consider the most current economic statistics, but view them with an overriding attention to contextualization rather than a more perishable micro focus.

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