The Japan that never was : explaining the rise and decline of a misunderstood country / / Dick Beason, Dennis Patterson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826927703321
• Autore: Beason Dick <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-7914-8529-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PattersonDennis Patrick <1953->
• Disciplina: 338.952
• Soggetti: Industrial policy - Japan; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Japan; Japan Economic policy 1945-1989; Japan Economic policy 1989-; Japan Politics and government 1945-1989; Japan Politics and government 1989-
• 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. 199-207) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""THE JAPAN THAT NEVER WAS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""TABLES AND FIGURES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Part I. THE MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTRY""; ""1. THE JAPAN THAT NEVER WAS""; ""2. HOW DIFFERENT IS DIFFERENT? Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Economic Policy Making in Postwar Japan""; ""Part II. POLITICAL ECONOMICS IN A CAPITALIST JAPAN""; ""3. THE PROBLEM OF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL POLICY""; ""4. MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND LABOR RELATIONS: A Japanese System or Economic Incentives?""; ""5. THE POSTWAR JAPANESE ECONOMY: From High Growth to Structural Adjustment""; ""Part III. POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN A DEMOCRATIC NATION""""6. THE ELECTORAL ORIGINS OF JAPANâ€?S ECONOMIC POLICIES""; ""7. POLITICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING""; ""8. POSTWAR JAPANESE POLITICS: From LDP Predominance to Coalition Politics""; ""Part IV. JAPAN IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM""; ""9. THE PAST IN JAPANâ€?S POLITICAL-ECONOMIC FUTURE""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. ; They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s was long in the making, the authors offer an alternative explanation for Japan's postwar political-economic trajectory and a better understanding of the challenges that Japan currently faces.