| Learning from the Japanese: Japan's Pre-war Development and the Third World Contributor(s): Nafziger, E. Wayne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1563244853 ISBN-13: 9781563244858 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1995 Annotation: This book looks at Japan's early economic modernization to see if today's low-income countries can learn any lessons. The author focuses on education, technology policy, capital formation, the transfer of savings from agriculture to industry, state aid to the private sector, improvement engineering in the informal sector, low wages, industrial dualism, export expansion, and resistance to Western imperialism (a strategy which included acquiring its own empire) under Japan's "guided capitalism". He criticizes modernization scholars for underemphasizing the damage of imperialism and the importance of economic autonomy and technological learning, the dependency school for prescribing trade reduction and neglecting market exchange-rate policies, and world-system theorists for rejecting the possibility of global economic growth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 338.952 |
| LCCN: 94027010 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Japan in the Modern World (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With the collapse of the Soviet economy in the early 1990s, Japan has become the major non-Western model for late developing countries. This book looks at Japan's early economic modernisation to see if today's low-income countries can learn any lessons. |