The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization

ISBN-13: 9780198292746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 368 str.

Masayuki Tanimoto

Opis

This volume explores Japan's industrialization from the perspective of "indigenous development," focusing on what may be identified as "traditional" or "indigenous" industries. Available for the first time in English, this volume sheds new light on the role of "indigenous development" and our understanding of the dualistic character of Japan's economic development.

Recenzje

Deeply informed by regional and individual enterprise studies, this volume makes an impressive case for the importance of indigenous industry in Japan's early industrial development. Carl Mosk Journal of Japanese Studies d

O autorze

Masayuki Tanimoto is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo. He is currently an academic visitor at the London School of Economics. In 1998, he was awarded the Nikkei Economic Book Prize.