The Japan That Never Was
Subtitle: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780791460405
Subjects: Economics; Politics and government; Economic policy; Business / Economics / Finance; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Japan; Industrial policy; Development - Economic Development; Economic Conditions; 1989-; Structural adjustment (Economic policy); International - General; 1945-1989
Description: "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."--Jacket.