The new institutional economics is one of the the most important new bodies of theory to emerge in economics in recent years. The contributors to this volume address its significance for the developing world. The book is a major contribution to an area of debate still in its formative phase. The book challenges the orthodoxies of development, especially concerning the role of markets. It includes articles from Robert Bates, John Toye and Nobel Laureate Douglass North.
The new institutional economics is one of the the most important new bodies of theory to emerge in economics in recent years. The contributors to this...
Japanese Women Working provides a wide range of perspectives on the study of working women in Japan over the last century. Contributors address issues of state policy towards and management of women workers, and also provide accounts of the experiences of particular groups of workers: domestic servants, hospital care assistants, textile workers, miners, homeworkers and 'professional' housewives. The book highlights many of the issues and decisions that have faced working women in Japan, and calls into question the accuracy of the prevailing domestic stereotype of Japanese women....
Japanese Women Working provides a wide range of perspectives on the study of working women in Japan over the last century. Contributors addre...
In the first half of the twentieth century, as external interest in the industrialisation of Japan grew, an increasing number of books on the topic by western authors were published in English. The authors included here address a wide range of topics, both general and specific. Room is given to a number of expansive interpretations of the course of Japanese industrialisation, but the set also includes volumes which focus more specifically on agriculture, manufacturing and labour. The majority of these volumes are now out of print, and they are characterised by detailed research and...
In the first half of the twentieth century, as external interest in the industrialisation of Japan grew, an increasing number of books on the topic by...
Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future.
In this book, leading economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as to how the...
Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional ec...
