Industrialization with a Weak State
Siriprachai, Somboon
Offers a critical assessment of Thai industrialisation with a focus on industrial policy, rent seeking and income inequality. An economist by training, Somboon sees the Thai state as authoritarian rather than developmental, and criticises the adoption of policies that were oriented toward increasing government revenue instead of nurturing industrial development. While these policies achieved growth, they did not strengthen Thailand's technolog...