How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region (2013)

Examines the successful industrial policy of the Asian Tigers, following a predictable and long-term formula of domestic educational and agricultural programs, then national industrial champions, and finally financial liberalization. Industrial policy has a grammar, and most countries attempting it now are getting the sequence wrong.

Read it asking: The industrial policy sequence takes decades and starts with land reform and schooling and but seems clear in hindsight. What does a modern industrialization policy look like?