Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy : past and present

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Title:

Author:

Hunter, Janet.

ISBN:

9780415368223

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Physical Description:

xi, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 6

Series Title:

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 6

Contents:

Introduction : economic and institutional change in Japan / Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz -- Technology and change in Japan's modern copper mining industry / Patricia Sippel -- Professionalism as power : Tajiri Inajirō and the modernisation of Meiji finance / Katalin Ferber -- Investment, importation and innovation : genesis and growth of beer corporations in prewar Japan / Harald Fuess -- Managing female textile workers : an industry in transition, 1945-1975 / Helen Macnaughtan -- Japan's inter-firm relations : on the way towards a market-oriented structure? / Andreas Moerke -- Global finance, democracy, and the state in Japan / Takaaki Suzuki.

Changes and crisis in the Japanese banking industry / Mariusz Krawczyk -- International mergers and acquisitions with Japanese participation : two cases from the automotive industry / Sigrun Caspary -- Environmental protection and the impact of institutional change / Ilona Koester -- Changes in conducting foresight in Japan / Kerstin Cuhls.

Geographic Term:

Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-

Japan -- Economic policy -- 1945-

Added Author:

Hunter, Janet.

Storz, Cornelia.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005015067.html

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Summary

Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future.

In this book, leading economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as to how the process of change in these areas actually works.

In applying these ideas to Japan, the writers in this volume are focusing on an issue which is currently being much debated in the country itself, and are helping our understanding of the world's second-largest economy.