Culture and Economic Explanation

Economics in the US and Japan

By Donald W. Katzner

There is a common view among many economists that one model is capable of explaining a specific type of behaviour in all cultural environments. It...

February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77479-6 (Routledge)

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Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth

Resolving Japan's Growth Controversy

By F. Gerard Adams, Lawrence R. Klein, Kumasaka Yuzo, Shinozaki Akihiko

The Japanese economy is beginning to show signs of recovery after years of stagnation/deflation, but many Japanese policymakers warn that this economic growth may be...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43331-0 (Routledge)

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A Basket Currency for Asia

Edited by Takatoshi Ito

The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 to 1998 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38376-9 (Routledge)

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Institutional Change in Japan

Edited by Magnus Blomström, Sumner La Croix

This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38015-7 (Routledge)

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The Changing Japanese Political System

The Liberal Democratic Party and the Ministry of Finance

By Harumi Hori

Japan’s political stability was shattered after the general election of July 1993 when the conservative Liberal Democratic Party’s thirty-eight year domination ended in defeat. This...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37241-1 (Routledge)

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Monetary Policy and Unemployment

The US, Euro-area and Japan

By Willi Semmler

This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70087-0 (Routledge)

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Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan

By Mary Louise Nagata

Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34605-4 (Routledge)

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Systemic Changes in the German and Japanese Economies

Convergence and Differentiation as a Dual Challenge

Edited by Werner Pascha

Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead?...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1634-0 (Routledge)

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Financial Globalization and the Opening of the Japanese Economy

By James P. Malcolm

This book investigates recent changes in Japan's financial system and looks at the implications for Japan's particularistic model of political economy. Drawing on the latest...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1472-8 (Routledge)

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Japan's Economic Power and Security

Japan and North Korea

By Christopher W. Hughes

Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20183-4 (Routledge)

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