Poverty, equality, and growth
Subtitle: the politics of economic need in postwar Japan
By: Deborah J. Milly.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ;; 174
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Poverty -- Japan.; Economic assistance, Domestic -- Japan.; Income distribution -- Japan.; Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Description: In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to account for why political actors succeeded in crafting a program that won acceptance, it is necessary to look beyond their interests and to identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-369) and index.