There are only four Asian economies, other than Japan, that have joined the league of developed countries with per capita Gross National Income of more than 10,000 USD since World War II: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, often dubbed the Four Asian Tigers.
28 Brynjolfsson, McAfee and Spence suggest, with a new spirit, a strategy that is not new but, they stress, “intellectually simple, if politically difficult”: stimulus from public investment in fields where the social return is especially high: basic research in science, technology and  26  Friedman, op. cit.