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This book offers a novel and wide-ranging interpretation of Japanese economic policy, using the historical analysis of Japanese economic development to shed light on current objectives, trends and possibilities. Through concerted national effort over two centuries, Japan has transformed an agrarian, feudal society into a leading industrial power. Some observers believe that, as Japan reaches economic maturity, its ability to make deliberate and effective national choices backed by government action will give way to the inevitable role of market forces, as evidenced by recent moves towards privatization and deregulation. Thus, according to this view, the features which made possible Japan's extraordinary economic development will disappear as a result of its own success. Kyoko Sheridan develops a very different interpretation based on the existence of a sequence of policy cycles which can be discerned in the historical development of Japan's economy. Only by reconstructing this sequence of policy cycles, observed over two centuries, can we make sense of the 'Japanese secret' and understand the significance of recent policy shifts. Sheridan argues that these shifts do not represent t

Author

Sheridan, Kyoko.

Publisher

Polity Press In Association With Blackwell

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745610603

Subjects

Economics, History, Business