The Great Transformation Of Japanese Capitalism

Author : Sébastien Lechevalier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317974964
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism written by Sébastien Lechevalier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s the performance of Japan’s economy was an international success story, and led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today, however, the dominant view is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past 30 years, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the great transformation of Japanese capitalism from the heights of the 1980s, through the lost decades of the 1990s, and well into the 21st century. This book posits an alternative analysis of the Japanese economic trajectory since the early 1980s, and argues that whereas policies inspired by neo-liberalism have been presented as a solution to the Japanese crisis, these policies have in fact been one of the causes of the problems that Japan has faced over the past 30 years. Crucially, this book seeks to understand the institutional and organisational changes that have characterised Japanese capitalism since the 1980s, and to highlight in comparative perspective, with reference to the ‘neo-liberal moment’, the nature of the transformation of Japanese capitalism. Indeed, the arguments presented in this book go well beyond Japan itself, and examine the diversity of capitalism, notably in continental Europe, which has experienced problems that in many ways are also comparable to those of Japan. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism will appeal to students and scholars of both Japanese politics and economics, as well as those interested in comparative political economy.

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315491842
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives written by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the five essays - on economic policy, agriculture, big business, labour relations, and foreign trade and investment - is written by a specialist in the field. The introduction places the essays in the wider context of contrasting theories of Japanese economic development. While such writings constitute an important part of the economic literature in Japan, virtually none of the great body of Marxian writing on Japanese capitalism has heretofore been available in English.

Author : Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801473715
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan Remodeled written by Steven Kent Vogel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan's past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry ties, "lifetime" employment, the main bank system, and dense interfirm networks. Many of these leaders turned to the U.S. model for lessons, urging the government to liberate the economy and companies to sever long-term ties with workers, banks, suppliers, and other firms.Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact enacted substantial reforms. Yet Japan never emulated the American model. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why they were enacted.Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players.

Author : Michael A. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461052
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Japanese Capitalism written by Michael A. Witt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic crisis tends to spur change in the 'rules of the game' - the 'institutions' - that govern the economic activity of firms and employees. But after more than a decade of economic pain following the burst of the Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s, the core institutions of Japanese capitalism have changed little. In this systematic and holistic assessment of continuity and change in the central components of Japanese capitalism, Michael A. Witt links this slow institutional change to a confluence of two factors: high levels of societal co-ordination in the Japanese political economy, and low levels of deviant behaviour at the level of individuals, firms, and organizations. He identifies social networks permeating Japanese business as a key enabler of societal co-ordination and an obstacle to deviancy, and sheds light on a pervasive but previously under-explored type of business networks, intra-industry loops. Includes a foreword by Gordon Redding.

Author : M. Itoh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230503241
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Economy Reconsidered written by M. Itoh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its successes in forming a company-centred society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth capitalism. Successful spread of information technologies resulted in deterioration of economic life among working people and a wide fall in birth rate. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble swelled, so as to prepare a prolonged depression throughout the 1990s. Neoliberalism with spiral reversal of capitalist development toward more competitive markets rather promoted difficulties among people. A lucid reconsideration of neoliberalism through concrete Japanese experiences.

Author : Karl Polanyi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802065164
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Transformation written by Karl Polanyi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written. ... A must-read’ Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect ‘Polanyi’s revolutionary work is a must-read’ Mariana Mazzucato Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets. Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards, he shows that there has been nothing 'natural' about the market state. Instead of reducing human relations and our environment to mere commodities, the economy must always be embedded in civil society. Describing the 'avalanche of social dislocation' of his time, Polanyi’s hugely influential work is a passionate call to protect our common humanity. ‘Polanyi's vision for an alternative economy re-embedded in politics and social relations offers a refreshing alternative’ Guardian ‘Polanyi exposes the myth of the free market’ Joseph E. Stiglitz With a new introduction by Gareth Dale

Author : Jon Halliday
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political History of Japanese Capitalism written by Jon Halliday and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Makoto Itoh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349210846
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism written by Makoto Itoh and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current world economic crisis and its impact on Japanese capitalism contains many paradoxes. After the historical conditions of continuous growth under US economic hegemony broke down, generating a global economic crisis from the beginning of the 1970s, the restructuring of capitalism through the 'information revolution' seems paradoxically to be causing a historical reverse in social conditions of over a century. Although the Japanese economy is often regarded as an exceptionally successful economy it is not immune from the crisis. The process of restrengthening Japanese competitive power has weakened the social position of Japanese workers. This book offers a stimulating analysis of the dynamics of the world and Japanese economy. The author's previous book The Basic Theory of Capitalism gives a solid theoretical basis for the treatment of the current crisis in this present study.

Author : Shigeto Tsuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576215
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Capitalism written by Shigeto Tsuru and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative account of Japan's economic resconstruction after World War II.

Author : Peter Matanle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134403798
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era written by Peter Matanle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. This book provides an in-depth examination of one of the most central and defining aspects of capitalist modernity in contemporary Japan-the lifetime employment system. It investigates the key themes surrounding the system, including the work attitudes and values of Japanese company employees and whether or not Japan is converging on Western forms of capitalist organisation. Peter Matanle presents and analyses original documentary data, drawn from extensive research within four large Japanese corporations, in order to explore these issues from the perspective of both management and employees. The findings are then discussed in terms of the development of Japan's capitalism and modernity. It will be of interest to researchers of Japanese studies, Business studies and Sociology.