The Economic Development of Japan 1868-1941Cambridge University Press, 1995 M09 14 - 92 pages The rise of Japan from a position of relative international obscurity in the mid-nineteenth century to that of third largest industrial nation in the 1980s has elicited an enormous amount of interest among academics. This short book provides an overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941. It introduces and surveys the current state of scholarship on Japan, touching upon almost all elements of the Japanese historical experience. A select bibliography (now updated to 1994) is provided to help the reader pursue the subject in more detail. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Growth and structural change | 7 |
The Tokugawa background c 16001860 | 17 |
The role of the state | 25 |
Factors in demand | 37 |
Land and agriculture | 46 |
Labour supply and the labour market | 56 |
Capital technology and enterprise | 64 |
Conclusion | 70 |
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Bibliographical update | 82 |
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