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Building a new economy : Japan's digital and green transformation / D. Hugh Whittaker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whittaker, D. H. (D. Hugh), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic forecasting--Japan.
- Economic forecasting.
- Japan--Economic policy--21st century.
- Japan.
- Japan--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Japan--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 'Building a New Economy' uses an evolutionary conceptual framework of states-and-markets, organizations-and-technology, and institutional change. It shows how the institutional coherence of the manufacturing-centred postwar model broke down, and was followed by the ideological and institutional dissonance of the 'lost decades'.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acronyms and Organizations
- Introduction: Can Japan Rise Again?
- Re-forming Japan: From Society 5.0 to 'New Capitalism'
- Conceptual Framework
- Organization of the Book
- 1. The Rise and Fall of the Postwar Economy
- Change and Continuity in the Japanese Economy
- The Rise of the Postwar Economy
- Tensions and Emerging Contradictions
- The 'Lost Decades'
- Abenomics
- Concluding Comments
- 2. Building and Governing the Digital Economy
- Confronting the '2025 Digital Cliff'
- E-government and the Digital Agency
- Cybersecurity
- New Industrial and Innovation Policy
- Governance for Society 5.0
- 3. The Green Economy
- Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Market Mechanisms: Emissions Trading Schemes and Carbon Taxes
- Plastics and the Circular Economy
- Resilience
- Green Growth Strategy and GX Realization Basic Plan
- 4. Eco Cities, Smart Cities, and Super Cities: Spatial Society 5.0
- The Smart City Boom
- Smart Cities and Smart City Policies in Japan
- Smart City Cases
- From Smart Cities to Super Cities
- A Note on MaaS
- 5. Innovation and the Shifting Sands of Industry
- IT Platforms and Electronics
- The Automobile CASE
- DX and Financial Services
- Entrepreneurship, Startups, and SMEs
- 6. Corporate Governance, ESG, and 'New Capitalism'
- Shareholder Voice and Corporate Governance
- GPIF, ESG, and Integrated Reporting
- A Reflection on Toshiba
- Society 5.0 and 'New Capitalism'
- 7. People, Skills, and Employment
- Supply and Demand for Workers in a Changing Landscape of Work
- Dismantling Japanese-style Employment
- Covid-19 and Teleworking.
- Investing in People, Rebuilding the Middle Class
- 8. Beyond Capitalism
- The 'Social and Solidarity Economy'
- NPOs and Social Enterprise
- Corporations as Social Enterprise
- 9. External Dependencies and Shifting Global Contexts
- Changing Economic Interdependence
- Economic Security and Defence
- Energy Security and Decarbonization
- Food Security and Agriculture Revival
- Growing EU-Japan collaboration
- 10. Conclusion: Controlled Dis-equilibrium
- Overcoming Institutional Stasis: Three Spirits of Japanese Capitalism
- The Innovation Dilemma
- People-centred Society 5.0?
- A New Model?
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 5, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-199707-2
- 0-19-889344-2
- 0-19-889343-4
- OCLC:
- 1411838135
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