The History of Japanese Economic Development Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence

• Main Author: Ohno, Kenichi
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2017; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Economics
• Subjects: Asian History; Banks and banking; Banks and banking > Japan > History; Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate; Business & Economics; Business and Management; Development economics; Economic development; Economic development > Japan > History; Economic History; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Elementary education; Entwicklung; Great Kanto Earthquake; History; History and Archaeology; Industrial policies; Interdisciplinary studies; Japan; Japan > Economic policy; Japan China War; Japan Russia War; Japan's stagnant growth; Japanese Business; Japanese economic development; Japanese Economics; Japanese economy; Kobu Daigakko; Liaodong Peninsula; Manufacturing SMEs; Matsukata Deflation; Meiji Industrialization; Microeconomics; Minsei Party; Political Economy; Priority Production System; Private Dynamism; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Rikken Seiyukai; SME Loan; SME Support; Vice Versa; West Germany; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Woods Fixed Exchange Rate System; Yen Dollar Exchange Rate; Japanese economic development; SME Loan; SME Support; Priority Production System; Vice Versa; Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate; Liaodong Peninsula; Meiroku Zasshi; Shidehara Diplomacy; Kobu Daigakko; SME Policy; Great Kanto Earthquake; Woods Fixed Exchange Rate System; Japan China War; Osaka Spinning; Rikken Seiyukai; Meiji Industrialization; Manufacturing SMEs; Matsukata Deflation; Japan Russia War; Japanese SMEs; Japanese economy; Industrial policies; West Germany; Japan's stagnant growth; Development economics; Minsei Party; Microeconomics; Late Edo Period; Private Dynamism; Yen Dollar Exchange Rate

This is an easy-to-read book that explains how and why Japan industrialized rapidly. It traces historical development from the feudal Edo period to high income and technology in the current period. Catch-up industrialization is analyzed from a broad perspective including social, economic and politic...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Introduction -- 1 An overview: evolutionary history and translative adaptation -- 2 The Edo society: preparing conditions for industrialization -- 3 Transition from Edo to Meiji -- 4 Importing and absorbing technology -- 5 Development of key industries -- 6 Budget, finance and the macroeconomy of Meiji -- 7 World War I and the 1920s -- 8 The banking crisis of 1927 -- 9 The 1930s and the war economy -- 10 Postwar recovery 1945-49 -- 11 The high growth era -- 12 Economic maturity and slowdown -- 13 The asset bubble and prolonged recession -- Questions and answers -- Bibliography -- Index