State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415328753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 400 str.

Yoshiro Miwa

Opis

Within economics, few issues are more central than the role of the state in the economy; within Japanese studies, few are more central than the role the Japanese government has played in post-war economic growth. With exquisite attention to theory and meticulous attention to detail, this book focuses on both these topics with startling results. Yoshiro Miwa asks whether a state can correct market failures and in particular critically analyses the performance of the Japanese economy as a result of state intervention within it. In order to examine the capacity of the state to promote growth, Miwa examines the Japanese machine tool industry, the government's role in promoting this sector and government efforts to achieve growth in small and medium sized enterprises in Japan. Despite the huge interest worldwide in Japan's economic history and industrial performance, there is no other book that has approached this important topic in such a comprehensive and incisive manner.

Recenzje

"A powerful and worthy parallel to the work of Nobel Prize winner George Stigler." -Leslie Hannah, University of Tokyo

Spis treści

Preface Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Part I Wartime Control 1. The Machine Tool Industry under Wartime Control 1.1 The Issues 1.2 The Precision Tool Control (PTC) Association and the Machine Tool Industry 1.3 The Behaviour and Function of the State Before the PTC Association 1.4 Concluding Remarks Part II The High Growth Era 2. The Machinery Industries under the 1956 Statutory Regime 2.1 The Issues 2.2 An Outline and Evaluation of the 1956 Act: Preliminaries 2.3 The Effectiveness of the 1956 Statutory Framework 2.4 The Machine Tool Industry under the 1956 Statutory Regime 2.5 Concluding Remarks Part III Contemporary Japan 3. Policies for Small Business 4. Who Actually Determines the Substance of Policies and How? Conclusion Reference Index

O autorze

Yoshiro Miwa is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan.