Japanese Economic Development : Markets, Norms, Structures

ISBN-13: 9780415771580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str.

Carl Mosk

Opis

Presents three distinct approaches to understanding how and why Japan made the transition from a relatively low-income country mainly focused on agriculture to a high-income nation centered on manufacturing and services. This book is useful to students in

Spis treści

1. Markets, Norms, Structures  2. Before Industrialization  3. Meeting the Western Challenge  4. Infrastructure and Heavy Industry  5. Reform and Renewal  6. Under the Shadow of Militarism  7. Japan in the New International Economic Order  8. Miracle Growth  9. The Social Transformation  10. The Slowdown  11. The Bubble Economy  12. Stagnation and Reform

O autorze

Carl Mosk is Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria in Canada. He specializes in economic history, population economics and Asian economies, especially the Japanese economy. He is the author of a number of books on the demographic and economic history of Japan and is author of the Routledge book, Trade and Migration in the Modern World (2005).