1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462152503321

Autore

Ōba Osamu <1927-2002.>

Titolo

Books and boats [[electronic resource] ] : Sino-Japanese relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / / Ōba Osamu ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, Me., : Merwin Asia, c2012

ISBN

1-937385-33-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FogelJoshua A. <1950->

Soggetti

International relations

Electronic books.

Japan Relations China

China Relations Japan

Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""BooksandBoats_Front Matter ""; ""Books and Boats_Front Cover""; ""Books and Boats Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Translator's Preface""; ""Chapter 1-Forgotten Sino-Japanese Contacts""; ""General Historical Knowledge and Historical Research  ""; ""Closed Country (Sakoku) ""; ""In the City of Shenyang""; ""Reflections on Sino-Japanese Relations ""; ""From the KÅ?-MÅ? yowa""; ""Chinese Books Imported to Japan in the Edo Period ""; ""Nagasaki Christmas ""; ""Foreign Relations in the Edo Period ""; ""Research Experiences in Europe""

""The East India Company Museum in Sweden""""Chinese and Japanese Porcelains Exported to Europe""; ""Studies of Export Porcelain""; ""Studies of Edo History""; ""Chapter 2-The Nagasaki Trade Was the Chinese Trade""; ""Domestic Chinese Political Conditions ""; ""The Number of Chinese Ships Coming to Japan ""; ""From the Qianjie Order to the Zhanhai Order ""; ""On the Shinpai ""; ""The Prize of a Shinpai ""; ""Ships Entering the Port of Nagasaki in 1688 ""; ""The Cargoes of Trading Vessels ""; ""Items Transported Back on Chinese Vessels ""; ""The Arrival of Chinese Vessels ""



""Problems in the Study of Sino-Japanese Trade """"Chapter 3-The Discovery of Banned Books""; ""Summons from the Office of the Magistrate""; ""The Inspector of Proscribed Books ""; ""What Is a Banned Book? ""; ""Materials Concerned with Proscribed Books ""; ""Thirty-two Banned Books ""; ""Tianxue chuhan ""; ""Proscribed Treasures ""; ""The Huan you quan and Mukai Gensei ""; ""The Banning of a Guidebook to Beijing ""; ""The Church and the Grave of Matteo Ricci ""; ""Investigation by the Chinese-language Interpreters ""; ""Instructions from the Senior Councilors ""

""The Judgment of the Magistrate """"Banned Books after JÅ?kyÅ? 2 ""; ""Fate of Banned Books and Their Vessels, 1685-1712""; ""Reasons for Banning Books ""; ""Change of Direction ""; ""Relaxation of Judgments ""; ""Documents from the Office of the Magistrate ""; ""Chapter 4-The Inspectorate of Books""; ""Generations of the Mukai Family ""; ""The Outlines ""; ""Preparing Book Explanations ""; ""Simplification of Procedures ""; ""Officially Ordered Items ""; ""The NegumichÅ? ""; ""A Song Edition That Got Away ""; ""Shoseki motochÅ? and Bidding ""; ""The Price of Books ""

""Chapter 5-Arai Hakuseki, the New ShÅ?toku Laws,  and the Ming Legal Codes""""The Percentage of Vessels Carrying Books ""; ""Centers of Publishing ""; ""Yu Meiji and Zhong Shengyu ""; ""The Cargo of Vessel Number Fifteen in the Year of the Rabbit ""; ""The Cargo of Vessel Number Fifty-one in the Year of the Rabbit ""; ""The Cargo for the Return Voyage of Vessel  Number Fifteen in the Year of the Rabbit""; ""The Books Brought by Vessel Number Fifty-One in the Year of the Rabbit""; ""An Order for the Ming Legal Codes ""; ""Maeda Tsunanori, DaimyÅ? of Kaga ""

""Tsunanori�s Studies of the Ming Legal Codes ""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781295603321

Autore

Hankel Wilhelm <1929->

Titolo

Brave new world economy [[electronic resource] ] : global finance threatens our future / / Wilhelm Hankel, Robert Isaak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey, : Wiley, 2011

ISBN

1-118-03688-3

1-283-02718-6

9786613027184

1-118-03686-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Classificazione

BUS027000

Altri autori (Persone)

IsaakRobert A

Disciplina

330.122

332/.042

Soggetti

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Economic policy

United States Economic policy 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Brave New World Economy: Global Finance Threatens Our Future; Contents; Preface; Manifesto: Democratization of Capitalism; Rescue the Right to Work in Aging Societies; Legalize Black Market Labor; Defuse the Ticking Time Bombs of the Welfare State; Enroll 100 Percent of the Population in Pensions; Reduce State Indebtedness; Look for New Answers to Old Problems; Subsidize Start-Ups in Disadvantaged Regions; The Mandate of the Democratic, Constitutional Welfare State: Stability, Reliability, Prosperity; Chapter 1: Midas Reveals How to Create Money through Credit Fraud

Does Progress in Developing Money Equal Progress in the World Economy?The State as Accomplice or Controller of the Money Economy, or Both?; The Illusory World of Finance and the Fictional Capital of Banks; Will Yesterday's Recipes Help Us Today?; The Finance Sector Always Underestimates the Risks of Its Innovations; Four Fatal Innovations of Global Banking; Essential Reforms; Four Conclusions from the Financial Crisis; Keynes, Properly Understood; Chapter 2: The Great Bluff: The American Way out of the Crisis; A Brief Tour of How We



Got Here; How American Globalization Revolutionized Finance

Wanted: An Emperor with Clothes How Goldman Sachs Milked Bubble Trouble; Origins of the Financial Crisis; The Lost Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management; The Government Intervenes;  Investors Panic; Obamanomics: Exploiting Crisis, Postponing Costs; The Debt Culture versus Hoarding and Investing; Austerity versus Stimulus: The Trillion-Dollar Gap; Recasting the United States: Domestic Dynamism with Responsibility; Chapter 3: Giant with Feet of Clay: The European Union; What Services Has the EU Rendered?; The Euro: Not Dynamic but Dynamite

Is the European Union on Its Way to Becoming a Nation-State?Do EU Institutions Induce Constitutional Infidelity?; Can the Euro Survive?; The Three Unknowns of the Current Bailout of the Euro; The Next Financial Adventure: A European State Bankruptcy Law; What Comes after the Euro?; The Future of the EU: The Swiss Model; Currency ""Concubinage"": The Currency Has to Serve the Citizen, Not the Citizen the Currency; Chapter 4: The New New World: Can BRICs Save the Rich?; Mimicking Past Economic Miracles; The Rise of the BRICs; Characteristics of the New New World; Legitimacy Lost

Decoupling and Demographics One BRIC at a Time; Debt versus Investment and Savings in BRICs; The Group of 20 and Global Imbalances; The Roadmap to the New World Economy Has Changed; Chapter 5: Time for a New Bretton Woods: Crisis Prevention through Monetary Law; What Caused Bretton Woods to Fail?; ""Floating"" Exchange Rates: A Compelling End?; Living in the ""Nonsystem"" of Post-Bretton Woods; Keynes with a New Feature: Real (Not Nominal) Fixed Exchange Rates; Chapter 6: Toward a Brave New World Economy: Reducing Debt and Unemployment

The World Economy and Nation: States Are a System of Communicating Pipes

Sommario/riassunto

An engaging look at the road to a sustained economic recovery The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and move towards investing in the real economy and full employment. ""Obamanomics"", and American reinvention can lead to a sustained economic recovery but only together with major domestic, European, and global monetary reforms in cooperation with emerging nations. For decades, the U.S. dollar has served as the world's reserve currency. But after the global market meltdown and the resulting