The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation

ISBN-13: 9780415250016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 176 str.

Ian Inkster;Inkster Ian

Opis

This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization. Thus the features of private enterprise culture that are so often isolated as keys to the nation's historical competitiveness may have been only temporary reflections of this wider process of cultural engineering: a necessary input into the program of technology transfer and late development.
This book provides a highly reliable guide to the industrial economy and history and covers a wide ground; it will be of great interest to those involved in Asian studies, Japanese studies, plus economists and professionals in business and enterprise culture.

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Achievements and Outcomes
2. Interpretations of Japan
3. Maturity: Social Problems of Japanese Capitalism
4. Forging Explanations: Technology
5. Cultural Engineering
6. The Institutions of Late Development
7. Nationalism and Globalism: Japan in World Context

O autorze

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and editor of the journal History of Technology. His books include Clever City(1991), Science and Technology in History (1991), and Technology and Industrialisation (1998). This book is the sister volume to Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, also published by Routledge in 2001.