Why did Japan stumble? : causes and cures / edited by Craig Freedman.

Contributor(s):

Freedman, Craig, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c1999.Description: xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

1858988349

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.951 WHY

Contents:

1. The catatonic economy / Craig Freedman pt. I. Future Directions. 2. Why do I expect Japan to collapse? / Michio Morishima. Rumination on Morishima / Hugh Patrick. Reply to Patrick / Michio Morishima. 3. Declining population, the size of the government and the burden of public debt: some economic policy issues in Japan / Ryutaro Komiya. Comment on Komiya / Mitsuaki Okabe. 4. Japan's business culture and society / Kyoko Sheridan. Comment on Sheridan / Peter Drysdale. Reply to Drysdale / Kyoko Sheridan pt. II. Current Problems. 5. Why has the Japanese economy been stumbling for so long? / Masaru Yoshitomi. 6. Empirical determinants of banking crises: Japan's experience in international perspective / Michael Hutchison, Kathleen McDill and Rita Madrassy. Comment on Hutchison, McDill and Madrassy / Eileen Mauskopf. Reply to Mauskopf / Michael Hutchison. 7. Crisis? What crisis? The policy response to Japan's banking crisis / Jenny Corbett. Comment on Corbett / Takatoshi Ito

Summary: "In this book, leading commentators on the Japanese economy analyse both the immediate and deep-seated causes that make a sustained economic recovery in Japan problematic. They debate the deep-rooted structural causes of Japan's decline and assess Japan's faltering financial system before prescribing policies to abate the continuing crisis."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume will be of interest to scholars of Japanese studies, financial economics and international economics as well as to anyone with an interest in the current Japanese crisis."--Jacket

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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"In association with the Centre for Japanese Economic Studies, Macquarie University, Australia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The catatonic economy / Craig Freedman
pt. I. Future Directions. 2. Why do I expect Japan to collapse? / Michio Morishima. Rumination on Morishima / Hugh Patrick. Reply to Patrick / Michio Morishima. 3. Declining population, the size of the government and the burden of public debt: some economic policy issues in Japan / Ryutaro Komiya. Comment on Komiya / Mitsuaki Okabe. 4. Japan's business culture and society / Kyoko Sheridan. Comment on Sheridan / Peter Drysdale. Reply to Drysdale / Kyoko Sheridan
pt. II. Current Problems. 5. Why has the Japanese economy been stumbling for so long? / Masaru Yoshitomi. 6. Empirical determinants of banking crises: Japan's experience in international perspective / Michael Hutchison, Kathleen McDill and Rita Madrassy. Comment on Hutchison, McDill and Madrassy / Eileen Mauskopf. Reply to Mauskopf / Michael Hutchison. 7. Crisis? What crisis? The policy response to Japan's banking crisis / Jenny Corbett. Comment on Corbett / Takatoshi Ito

"In this book, leading commentators on the Japanese economy analyse both the immediate and deep-seated causes that make a sustained economic recovery in Japan problematic. They debate the deep-rooted structural causes of Japan's decline and assess Japan's faltering financial system before prescribing policies to abate the continuing crisis."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume will be of interest to scholars of Japanese studies, financial economics and international economics as well as to anyone with an interest in the current Japanese crisis."--Jacket

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