Makes Japanese sources accessible in EnglishAlthough much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan's leading econom
The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts
The idea has become popular that industrialisation in East Asia, in particular Japan, was fundamentally differently from Western industrialization because it wo
This volume explains the salient features of the Japanese labour market. The key idea in this book is integrated segmentation. Emphasis is upon segmentation: on