Meltdown: Asia's Spectacular Boom and Devastating Bust

by Mark L. Clifford, Pete Engardio, Claffcrd & Engardac

Asia's financial meltdown and its impact on the world are analyzed by two specialists at Business Week, who trace the boom-bust cycle of the Asian economies, critiquing the continent's development strategies and speculating on the future of the region's various economic machines.

322 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

MARK L. CLIFFORD is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong and the former executive director of the Asia Business Council. He is editorial chair of the Asian Review of Books, a Council on Foreign Relations member, and a board member at Next Digital. He served as editor-in-chief of both English-language papers in Hong Kong, The Standard and the South China Morning Post. An honors history graduate of UC Berkeley and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he holds a University of Hong Kong Ph.D. in Hong Kong history.