1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455988003321

Autore

Cargill Thomas F

Titolo

The political economy of Japanese monetary policy [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1997

ISBN

0-262-26207-X

0-262-26988-0

0-585-02358-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HutchisonMichael M

Itò„Takatoshi <1950->

Disciplina

332.4/952

Soggetti

Monetary policy - Japan

Banks and banking, Central - Japan

Electronic books.

Japan Economic policy 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""The Political Economy of Japanese Monetary Policy""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Political Economy of Japanese Monetary Policy""; ""Introduction""; ""The Evolution of Central Banking in Japan, up to the 1950's""; ""Phases of Japan s Monetary- Policy Experience""; ""Exchange Rates, Policy Coordination, and a Yen Currency Area""; ""The Bubble Economy and Its Collapse""; ""Asset-Price Deflation: Nonperforming Loans,""; ""Companies, and""; ""Regulatory Inertia""; ""Elections, Monetary Policy, and Political Business Cycles""

""Inflation, Time Inconsistency, and Central- Bank Independence""""Concluding Comments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The contributions in this book provide a unique view of its emergence and growth in a number of different national settings in an area of the Third World where the industry is most advanced. The motor vehicle industry has had a dramatic impact on industrialized societies, shaping the structure and productive processes of capitalist economies and defining consumer life styles. The industry's impact on the Third World has been no less significant. The contributions in this book provide a



unique view of its emergence and growth in a number of different national settings in an area of the Third World where the industry is most advanced. They explore what occurs when the world's leading consumer durable is produced and sold in a context of dependency and underdevelopment. Chapters by Kenneth S. Mericle, Rhys Jenkins, and Rich Kronish examine the political economy of the motor vehicle industry as it has evolved in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, stressing the importance of the structural problems it has encountered. Chapters by John Humphrey, Judith Evans, Paul Heath Hoeffel and Daniel James, and by Ian Roxborough focus on the role and impact of labor in the same three countries. Chapters by Douglas Bennett and Kenneth Sharpe, and Michael Fleet (on the industry in Colombia) discuss the bargaining process between the transnational vehicle corporations and the Latin American governments. A concluding chapter by the editors summarizes the study and offers a history of the industry in the three principal countries from 1900 to 1980.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824280303321

Autore

Beckman Frida

Titolo

Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present / / Frida Beckman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2016

ISBN

1-78348-802-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics

Disciplina

306.201

Soggetti

Allegories

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Political aspects - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Culture, control, critique. Cultural critique from the Frankfurt School until today -- Formalism, allegory, totality. Allegory and representation -- Allegory and the present -- Space, allegory, control. Spatial preoccupations -- Celebrating ruins: The drowned



world, The drought, The crystal world -- Filling the gaps: Crash, Concrete island, High rise -- Coming into allegory: Cocaine nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium people, Kingdom come -- Totalities, allegories and revolutions -- Cultural critique and form -- Time, allegory, control. Timely preoccupations -- In and out of time: "Chronopolis" and in time -- Cultural critique and form -- Vision, allegory, control. Visual preoccupations -- bread and circuses: The hunger games -- Cultural critique and form -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and analyse how this tendency can be understood in relation to the totalizing tendencies of control society.