Structural Change: The Challenge to Industrial Societies

ISBN-13: 9783662024973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 188 str.

Herbert Hax; Willy Kraus; Kiyoshi Tsuchiya

Opis

The highly developed industrial countries today have to face the challenge of accelerated structural change. The problems arising from this process are tackled in very different ways. In the public discussion the different approaches of Japan on the one side and of Western European countries on the other have received consider able attention. Structural change in its economic, social and political aspects has been the subject of the 8th German-Japanese Seminar on Economics and Social Sciences, held at Cologne from the 24th to the 27th of September, 1984. The tradition of German-Japanese Seminars on Economics and Social Sciences goes back to 1966, when the first meeting was held at Tokyo. Among the first participants were Dr. Hiromi Arizawa, Dr. Kazuo Okochi, both professors at the University of Tokyo, and Dr. Karl Hax, professor at Frankfurt University. The objective of all seminars, which have been held since, has been the analysis of eco nomic and social problems of immediate interest in both countries. The records of former seminars, which have been published partly in Japanese, partly in German throw light upon the shift of empha sis toward new problems which took place during aperiod of 18 years."

Spis treści

I. Japan and the Countries of the European Community — Trade Relations and Economic Interdependencies.- The World Economy and Japan Since the 1970’s.- Japan, Trade Partner of the European Community and the Federal Republic of Germany.- II. Energy Supply and Economic Development.- Middle Eastern Oil and the Japanese Economy.- Energy Supply in the European Community.- III. New Technologies and Technology Promotion.- Technology Promotion in Japan.- Technology Promotion in the Federal Republic of Germany.- IV. Changes in the Industrial Structure: The Impact of New Technologies and the Development of Service Industries.- The Impact of New Technologies and the Development of Service Industries in Japan.- The Impact of New Technologies and the Development of Service Industries in the Federal Republic of Germany.- V. Growth, Productivity, and Employment.- Recent Changes in Unemployment in the Japanese Labor Market.- Growth, Technical Progress, and Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany.- VI. Changes in Social Values in Industrial Societies.- Changes in Social Security and Value Orientation.- Comments to: Changes in Social Security and Value Orientation.- Changes in Social Values: The Example of the Federal Republic of Germany.