The Japan that never was : explaining the rise and decline of a misunderstood country / Dick Beason, Dennis Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beason, Dick, 1958-

Contributor:

Patterson, Dennis Patrick, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial policy--Japan.

Industrial policy.

Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Japan.

Structural adjustment (Economic policy).

Japan--Economic policy--1945-1989.

Japan.

Japan--Economic policy--1989-.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Japan--Politics and government--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s was long in the making, the authors offer an alternative explanation for Japan's postwar political-economic trajectory and a better understanding of the challenges that Japan currently faces.

Contents:

""THE JAPAN THAT NEVER WAS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""TABLES AND FIGURES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Part I. THE MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTRY""; ""1. THE JAPAN THAT NEVER WAS""; ""2. HOW DIFFERENT IS DIFFERENT? Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Economic Policy Making in Postwar Japan""; ""Part 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""

""Part 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""; ""Part IV. JAPAN IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM""; ""9. THE PAST IN JAPAN�S POLITICAL-ECONOMIC FUTURE""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.

ISBN:

9780791485293

0791485293

OCLC:

923417121