Booty Capitalism : : The Politics of Banking in the Philippines / / Paul D. Hutchcroft.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hutchcroft, Paul D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 7 halftones, 5 tables

In the early postwar years, the Philippines seemed poised for long-term economic success; within the region, only Japan had a higher standard of living. By the early 1990s, however, the country was dismissed as a perennial aspirant to the ranks of newly industrializing economies, unable to convert i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. The Political Foundations of Booty Capitalism in the Philippines
• 2. The Foundations of Modern, Rational Capitalism: "Bringing Political Arbitrariness to Heel"
• 3. Patrimonial States and Rent Capitalism: The Philippines in Comparative Perspective
• 4. Private Interests and Public Resources: The Historical Development of the Philippine Banking System
• 5. "Open Sesame": The Emergence of Private Domestic Commercial Banks, 1960-1972
• 6. Bank Reform and Crony Abuses: The Martial Law Regime Deals with the Banking Sector, 1972-1980
• 7. Further Reform, Further Failure: Technocrats, Cronies, and Crises, 1980-1983
• 8. Cleaning Up: The Fernandez Years, 1984-1990
• 9. Death, Resurrection, and Renovation: The Philippine Banking Sector in the 1990s
• 10. The Philippine Political Economy at the Crossroads
• Appendix 1: Total Assets, Philippine Commercial Banking System, 1900-1995
• Appendix 2. Total Assets, Philippine Commercial Banks (by Rank and by Percentage of Total Assets of all Commercial Banks), Year-End 1955-1995
• Appendix 3. Concentration Ratios (Based on Total Assets of Largest Commercial Banks), 1960-1995
• List of Interviews
• Subject Index
• Author Index