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Post-Crisis Korea James Crotty & Kang-Kook Lee

This paper evaluates the neoliberal economic restructuring process implemented in Korea following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. A detailed analysis of the macro economy, labor markets, financial markets, and nonfinancial firms in Korea in the past three and one-half years shows that neoliberal restructuring has created a vicious cycle in which a perpetually weak financial sector fails to provide the capital needed for real sector growth, investment and financial robustness, while real sector financial fragility continuously weakens financial firms.

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