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The Japanese industrial economy : late development and cultural causation / Ian Inkster

By: Series: Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 33Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: xii, 161 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415250013
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.952 INK
Contents:
Illustrations. - Preface and acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction: achievements and outcomes. Modelling Japan?. Preludes to the twentieth century. The short twentieth century 1912-71. Japan in the modern climacteric 1971-2001. Honing an argument. Analysing the industrial economy. - 2. Interpretations of Japan. Late development. Technology transfer. The social and the economic. Features of Japanese industrial history. Interpretations and perspectives. Wider contexts. The cake of custom and cultural engineering. - 3. Maturity : Social problems of Japanese capitalism. Introduction. Measures of Japanese society. The social underpinnings of fast growth. Underbelly or endaka society?. Traditions and modernities : the limits to convergence theory. Limits to Japanese growth. - 4. Forging explanations: technology. On modes of explanation. The conditions of technology transfer. Japanese exceptionalism : the primacy of technology transfer. Catch-up, culture and the creativity debate. Summary and conclusions. - 5. Cultural engineering. Problems of the cultural stock argument. Tokugawa and beyond : aspects of Japanese history. Fundamentals: the Meiji case. The avoidance system : on minimising cultural resistance. Summary and conclusions. - 6. The institutions of late development : private enterprise. Enterprise culture again. Culture and enterprise. Culture, Ideology and institutions : the Masuda model. Late development: increasing agency. Late Development in the endaka laboratory. Cultural studies : tacit knowledge and obligational drag. Summary and conclusions. - 7. Nationalism and globalism : Japan in world context. On being exceptional : global history. The Asian context: China, Korea and Japan. Exceptionalism as accumulative causation. History continuing. - Notes. - Bibliography. - Index.
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Illustrations. - Preface and acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction: achievements and outcomes. Modelling Japan?. Preludes to the twentieth century. The short twentieth century 1912-71. Japan in the modern climacteric 1971-2001. Honing an argument. Analysing the industrial economy. - 2. Interpretations of Japan. Late development. Technology transfer. The social and the economic. Features of Japanese industrial history. Interpretations and perspectives. Wider contexts. The cake of custom and cultural engineering. - 3. Maturity : Social problems of Japanese capitalism. Introduction. Measures of Japanese society. The social underpinnings of fast growth. Underbelly or endaka society?. Traditions and modernities : the limits to convergence theory. Limits to Japanese growth. - 4. Forging explanations: technology. On modes of explanation. The conditions of technology transfer. Japanese exceptionalism : the primacy of technology transfer. Catch-up, culture and the creativity debate. Summary and conclusions. - 5. Cultural engineering. Problems of the cultural stock argument. Tokugawa and beyond : aspects of Japanese history. Fundamentals: the Meiji case. The avoidance system : on minimising cultural resistance. Summary and conclusions. - 6. The institutions of late development : private enterprise. Enterprise culture again. Culture and enterprise. Culture, Ideology and institutions : the Masuda model. Late development: increasing agency. Late Development in the endaka laboratory. Cultural studies : tacit knowledge and obligational drag. Summary and conclusions. - 7. Nationalism and globalism : Japan in world context. On being exceptional : global history. The Asian context: China, Korea and Japan. Exceptionalism as accumulative causation. History continuing. - Notes. - Bibliography. - Index.