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Ashes to awesome : Japan's 6,000-day economic miracle / Yoshikawa Hiroshi ; translated by Fred Uleman.
Lippincott Library HC462.9 .Y65413 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoshikawa, Hiroshi, 1951- author.
- 吉川洋, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
- Japan library
- Standardized Title:
- Kōdo seichō. English
- 高度成長. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021101383
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Industries.
- History.
- Japan.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1945-1989.
- Economic conditions.
- Industries--Japan--History--20th century.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.
- Summary:
- The author, one of Japan's foremost macroeconomists, looks back at the rapid-growth years and how they revolutionized Japanese life, for better and for worse, and explains how latent demand, population mobility, productivity improvements, and other non-unique factors converged to generate the growth. -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Looking back : Japan before growth took off
- Television arrives
- Technological innovation and corporate management
- The great migration
- The mechanism of rapid growth
- Reactions right and left
- Growth : the good and the bad
- Looking back, summing up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9784866581750
- 4866581751
- OCLC:
- 1246630936
- Publisher Number:
- 1920033024004
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