Abstract:
Analyzes the growth, the accumulation and the adjustment of 4 china town capitalist families (Sophonpanich, Jiarawanon, Chokwatana and Darakanon) under Thailand's political economic development during the period of 1945-2004. The thesis employed Marxian's Primitive Accumulation of Capital analysis approach to explain the growth, the accumulation and the adjustment of 4 china town capitalist families. The central findings of the thesis is that they started their accumulation by doing trade. During the period of 1940s-1970s, they became the merchant capitalist who took advantage from Bureaucratic Capitalism and Imperialist Capitalism to accumulate capital, to extend and diversify their business. In 1980s, they became giant capitalists that had the amazing extension and diversificationl. After the 1997 economic crisis, they had to reduce their peripheral business in order to protect the core business, and adjust their organization management in order to ease the affect from the crisis.