Beason / Patterson The Japan That Never Was

Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8529-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beason, Dick

Patterson, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
I. The Misunderstood Country
1. The Japan That Never Was
2. How Different Is Different? Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Economic Policy Making in Postwar Japan
II. Political Economics in a Capitalist Japan
3. The Problem of Japanese Industrial Policy
4. Management Practices and Labor Relations: A Japanese System or Economic Incentives?
5. The Postwar Japanese Economy: From High Growth to Structural Adjustment
III. Politics and Policy Making in a Democratic Nation
6. The Electoral Origins of Japan's Economic Policies
7. Political Change and Economic Policy Making
8. Postwar Japanese Politics: From LDP Predominance to Coalition Politics
IV. Japan in the New Millennium
9. The Past in Japan's Political-Economic Future
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dick Beason is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta and the coauthor (with Jason James) of The Political Economy of Japanese Financial Markets: Myths versus Reality. Dennis Patterson is Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.