This book explores new frontiers in the research of economic growth and industrial reconstruction, analyzing economic growth and transitions in industrial structure in East Asia with a variety of data. First, the effects of demographic change on trade openness is analyzed empirically using the panel data of APEC countries. Second, the determinant of wage and housing costs are estimated using survey data collected from peasant workers in China. Third, the determinants of conquests among nomads in or near China and dynasties from world history are analyzed empirically using data regarding dynasties. Fourth, critiques on Emmanuel's unequal exchange theory are investigated based on the profit data in the world. This book is highly recommended for readers who would like to obtain a new idea about economic development in terms of industrial structure.

Analyzes empirically the effects of demographic change on trade openness, unlike previous research Discusses the agglomeration economies and diseconomies between firms and workers generally and in China specifically Considers economic growth and transition of industrial structure in history and in international exchange

Inhalt
1 Does Demographic Change Influence International Trade?: An Empirical Study on APEC.- 2 Failure of Agglomeration Diseconomy and Overexpansion of Chinese cities.- 3 Peasant workers and wages formation of low-skilled workers in China.- 4 Data and variables.- 5 Empirical Analysis.- 6 Robustness Checks.- 7 Conclusions. <p