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10%OFFSteven K. Vogel - Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism - 9780801473715 - V9780801473715
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Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

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Description for Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 tables, 4 line drawings, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.

As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan's past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry ties, "lifetime" employment, the main bank system, and dense interfirm networks. Many of these leaders turned to the U.S. model for lessons, urging the government to liberate the economy and companies to sever long-term ties with workers, banks, suppliers, and other firms.Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473715
SKU
V9780801473715
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About Steven K. Vogel
Steven Vogel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries, also from Cornell, and editor of U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World.

Reviews for Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism
Vogel's book is a very important contribution that should stand up well for a number of years. His approach is careful, nuanced, appropriately eclectic, somewhat skeptical, and very readable. I believe he successfully explains why economic reform is not causing a convergence between the Japanese version of capitalism and that of the United States (puncturing a belief that was popular ... Read more

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