Japan's economic dilemma : the institutional origins of prosperity and stagnation / Bai Gao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gao, Bai, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Japan.

Financial crises.

Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Japanese economy, after decades of seemingly unsurpassable competitiveness, experienced a major crisis in the 1990s. Observers of Japan are faced with a challenging question: How can one explain Japan's reversal from stunning prosperity to dismal stagnation? Bai Gao, in this illuminating, comprehensive analysis of Japan's economic story goes beyond other analyses to demonstrate how the same economic institutions could produce both stunning economic success and the slump of the 1990s. By comparing the factors that sustained miracle growth in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s with the factors that led to the bubble economy of the late 1980s, Gao sheds new light on internal tensions in the Japanese economic system and how, finally, they 'burst the bubble' in the 1990s. Those who have been following the lively debate over 'What Became of the Japanese Miracle?' will be rewarded by Gao's richly detailed, historically informed, and multilayered contribution.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 THREE THEORETICAL ISSUES; CHAPTER 3 THE RISE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF COORDINATION AND STABILITY; CHAPTER 4 COORDINATION, EXCESSIVE COMPETITION, AND HIGH-SPEED ECONOMIC GROWTH; CHAPTER 5 STABILITY, TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, AND THE WELFARE SOCIETY; CHAPTER 6 THE ROADS TO THE BUBBLE; CHAPTER 7 THE STRUGGLE OF THE WELFARE SOCIETY; CHAPTER 8 FIGHTING THE STAGNATION; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-293) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12121-3

1-280-15925-1

0-511-11890-2

0-511-04109-8

0-511-15483-6

0-511-32851-6

0-511-61293-1

0-511-04657-X

OCLC:

559181920