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It’s here! Happy to announce that my book Mobilizing for Development was just released by @CornellPress as a hardcover and ebook. Quick summary below 1/ 
For decades, the story of East Asia’s economic transformation has been told from one main perspective: the developmental state framework. The book departs from that theory by shifting the focus from industrial to rural development 2/
I argue that rural modernization campaigns played a key role in the region. They occurred in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China, although their outcomes varied 3/
