Chapter One: Introduction: Survey of an Economic Debacle

A Second Ayuthaya?
High Flyers Laid Low
The Effect on the Real Economy
Twilight Zone
The Culture of Conspicuous Consumption
The Thai Path to Development
Globalization of the Thai Economy
Creating the Credit Economy
Royal Doubts
Chapter Two: Back to the Third World
The Political Economy of NIChood
Import Substitution Industrialization
Export-oriented Industrialization
The Private Sector and the State
The Japanese Tsunami
Attracting Portfolio Investment and Bank Capital
The Deluge
Financiers and Realtors: Bonnie and Clyde in Bangkok
The Real Estate Bust
Playing Pretend
Finance One: The Crisis in Microcosm
Botched Rescue
The Panic
The Financial Crisis and the Structural Crisis
Chapter Three: Thailand under the IMF
A Cozy Relationship
The Chaovalit Government Hesitates
Chuan in the Breach
Critique of the Stabilization Program
Why Engineer a Recession?
The 'Moral Hazard' Issue
Advancing the US Agenda
Reform or Collapse?
Chapter Four: The Failure of Industrial Deepening
The Education Bottleneck
The R & D Fiasco
Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer: Electronics
Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer: The Car Industry
Thailand as Japan's Technological Dependency
The Financial Crisis and Foreign Investment Trends
Conclusion
Chapter Five: Labor and Capital
Emergence of the Industrial Working Class
Organizing Labor
Labor in the Boom Years
Working Women
Hazards at Work
Squeezing Labor for International Competitiveness
Child Labor and Migrant Labor
Losing Strategy
Economic Collapse and Class Conflict
Chapter Six: Bangkok: Vicissitudes of a Megalopolis
Prime Among Primates
Los Angelizing the 'City of the Angels'
Disneyland East: The Mass Transit Chaos
Citizens versus Mass Transit
Land Management: Unleashing the Private Sector
Klong Toey: Rallying Point for the Urban Poor
Chapter Seven: Pollution Haven
Foreign Investment and Pollution
Forms of Pollution
Crisis of Regulation
Chapter Eight: The Erosion of Agriculture
The Two Faces of the Thai Countryside
Subordinating the Countryside to the City
Commercialization and Agrarian Crisis Up to the 1970s
Social Struggle, Reform, and Peasant Defeat
Containing the Countryside After 1976
Aborted 'NAICdom': Thai Agriculture in the Late 1980s
Down the Road of NIC Agriculture?
Thai Agriculture in the Eye of the Storm
Chapter Nine: The Dynamics of Deforestation
Deforesting the North
The Battle for the Highlands
Ecological Crisis in the Northeast
Disaster in the South
Government: Part of the Problem?
Conflicting Property Systems
Lack of Political Will
The Forest Village and STK Program
Reforestation and Resettlement
The Thai Forestry Sector Master Plan
The Forest Conservation Development Project
The Community Forest Bill
Chapter Ten: Damming the Countryside
EGAT Begets Resistance
The Problem with Dams
The Pak Mun Face-off
Reginalization of Thailand's Environmental Crisis
The Financial Crisis and the Environment
Chapter Eleven: The AIDS Crisis
AIDS in Asia
AIDS in Thailand
Poverty, Labor Migration, and AIDS
AIDS and the Sex Industry
The Economic Impact of AIDS
Battling AIDS: The Scorecard
Conclusion
Chapter Twelve: Conclusion: Revisioning the Future
Emergence and Dynamics of the NGO Movement
Critique of the system
Fleshing out the alternative
Selected Readings
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