The Japanese Economy

From Black Ships to Dark Depression
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-415-83635-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This textbook offers an accessible guide to the modern Japanese economy by examining how Japan developed from a defeated and destitute country following World War II to a dominant economic power in the 1980s and then a persistently troubled economy beginning in the 1990s. Craig Freedman, an experienced teacher and scholar of economics, provides students with an understanding of the Japanese economy works and how to employ economic reasoning to analyse the specifics of any economy.
Part I explains how specific economies can be fruitfully analysed and understood and will outline what is different about the Japanese economy in terms of structure and institutions.
Part II explains how government policy shaped the economy toward the goal of a low risk, middle class society and fostered rapid, ‘miracle’ growth in the post war period. It also examines the way in which this policy led to an inability to move the economy out of its extended slump in the last two decades.
Part III then looks at the supply or production side of the Japanese economy focusing on the key markets and organizations that formed the basis of the Japanese economy.
Finally, Part IV looks at parallel developments in South Korea and China and examines how these countries attempted to adapt the Japanese model to their local differences, needs and objectives.
Featuring suggestions for further reading, end of chapter study questions, boxed case studies and a glossary of key terms, The Japanese Economy is an essential textbook for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the Japanese economy or East Asian economies more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freedman, Craig (Macquarie University, Australia)

Freedman, Craig

Truuvert, Toomas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Nails that Stick Out / Nails that are Hammered In: Delving into the Japanese Economy 1. Introduction: History, Culture and the Price of Bananas – How to Study a Specific Economy 2. Transforming Bushido: The Making of the Modern Japanese State 3. From Here to Paternity: An Overview of the Japanese Economy Part 2: The Building Blocks of the Japanese Economy: Business, Labor, and Banking 4. Crumbling Corporate Homelands: The Mystery of Japanese Firms 5. The Sinking of the Salariman: Mixed Pleasures from Laboring under an Illusion 6. Banking Your Dreams: The Death of Financial Wizards Part 3: A Particularly Japanese Ball of Wax: A Bird’s Eye View of the Economy 7. Engineering a Future: Fiscal and Industrial Policy 8. Monetary Madness: The Mystery of the Bank of Japan 9. Japan Uber Alles: Trade as War by Other Means 10. All Fall Down: Ignoring the Lessons of Japan

Über Autor(innen)

Craig Freedman has published on the History of Economic Thought and the Japanese Economy. He is the author of In Search of the Two-Handed Economist (2016), editor of George Stigler (2020)and co-author of Where Economics Went Wrong (2018).
Toomas Truuvert has published on the History of Economic Thought, and Learning in Higher Education. Recently retired,he was previously a tenured Lecturer in Applied Finance.