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The Economic History of Japan:1600-1990 - Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859 (Hardcover, Abridged Ed)
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The Economic History of Japan:1600-1990 - Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859 (Hardcover, Abridged Ed)
Series: Economic History of Japan 1660-1990
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This multi-volume series of modern Japanese economic history
encompasses both the institutional aspects of Japanese economic
development, and the results of econometric and cliometric research
to place the key moments of Japanese economic history in a more
general context. Volume one, The Emergence of Economic Society in
Japan, focuses on the period from the start of the seventeenth
century, when a discernible consumer population begins to form
within cities, to the 1870s when the start of rapid
industrialization is witnessed. This industrialization was unique
amongst non-Western countries, facilitated by the emergence of
their market economy. The contributors examine the reasons for
these developments, tracing the emergence of a national economy in
which agricultural produce begins to be produced specifically for
the purpose of sale to the newly-forming urban consumer
populations, and considerations of efficiency and competition are
introduced into agriculture. Seventeenth century Japan is shown to
be a society that was almost immediately able to provide key
components of a market economy, such as communications, transport,
and currency, so that economic laws began to operate spontaneously.
Following its encounters with industrialized Western powers, Japan
was quick to embrace their example, and uniquely was able to
rapidly industrialize. Focusing on the foundations of modernity
laid in this period, the volume explores whether this was a process
of 'alternative modernization' to that experienced in the West.
Written by leading Japanese scholars, and available for the first
time in English-translation, the contributions have been abridged
and re-written for a non-Japanese readership.
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