| The Japan That Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country Contributor(s): Beason, Dick (Author), Patterson, Dennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791460398 ISBN-13: 9780791460399 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 338.952 |
| LCCN: 2003052607 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9.26" (0.94 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |