The Japanese Economy Reconsidered

By Makoto Ito and Makoto Itoh

Book Overview

The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its successes in forming a company-centred society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth capitalism. Successful spread of information technologies resulted in deterioration of economic life among working people and a wide fall in birth rate. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble swelled, so as to prepare a prolonged depression throughout the 1990s. Neoliberalism with spiral reversal of capitalist development toward more competitive markets rather promoted difficulties among people. A lucid reconsideration of neoliberalism through concrete Japanese experiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349398233
• ISBN13: 9781349398232
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"