Economic Crisis in Asia: The Case of ThailandFootnote

* I would like to thank David Angel, Peter Bell, Eric Sheppard, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to acknowledge the research support provided by the Department of Geography and the MacArthur Program at the University of Minnesota, as well as the Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of British Columbia.

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