This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japan's economic history and current situation. It offers a concise description of Japanese economic institutions and events, integrated with cogent explanations rooted in economic logic. Extensive annotation to the scholarly literatu…
"This book is for anyone broadly interested in Japan, for it is impossible to fully understand Japan without learning what basic economics has to say about it, which is much. To know Japan-or any country for that matter-is more than an ability to recite a litany of facts about i…
Providing a comprehensive survey of Japan's economic history and current situation, this edition offers a concise description of Japanese economic institutions and events, integrated with cogent explanations rooted in economic logic.
Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics.…
Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics.…
Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is on of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics. …