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Title: Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform by Edward J. Lincoln ISBN: 0-8157-0073-3 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: unfortunately, arthritis is a chronic disease
Comment: This is a timely book on the prospects for meaningful structural reform in the world's second largest economy, written by a long-time observer of Japan who served as a special advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale in the Tokyo emabssy in the mid-1990s. Ed Lincoln examines the postwar Japanese economic model (an emphasis on indirect finance (banking) and a diminished role for shareholders in corporate governance; networks of affiliated firms (keiretsu); and government-led industrial policy) and the strains that globalization has placed on it. He argues that although the system has become sclerotic, that it satisfies the needs of enough political stakeholders to impede the formation of any stable coalition for fundamental reform. As a consequence, deregulation in Japan is often taken in half-steps, delivering far less than advertised by its proponents. Lincoln believes it is by no means certain that efforts underway will be sufficient to pull Japan out of its economic malaise.
From a US standpoint, Lincoln argues that a weak Japanese economy is fundamentally against US interests. Japanese economic weakness is likely to contribute to policy tensions with the US, and Lincoln recommends that the US government pursue a "low-key" agenda of encouraging reform.
The book is well documented with many tables and charts and fascinating examples.
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Title: Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival by Richard Katz ISBN: 0765610744 Publisher: M.E.Sharpe Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Japan's Economic Dilemma : The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation by Bai Gao ISBN: 0521793734 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan by Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito ISBN: 0262032856 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Japan, the System That Soured : The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle by Richard Katz ISBN: 0765603101 Publisher: M.E.Sharpe Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance by Akio Mikuni, R. Taggart Murphy, Michael H. Armacost ISBN: 0815702221 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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