Japan since 1980 (Paperback)

This book tells the story of the performance of Japan s economic and political institutions starting in the late 1970s through late 2007. The authors explain how Japan s flawed response to new economic, political, and technological forces requiring more open markets and more democratic political institutions ushered in a lost decade and a half of economic development from 1990 to 2005. Japan s impressive economic performance in the 1980s in fact masked an accident waiting to happen, the accident being the burst of the bubble in equity and real estate prices in 1990 and 1991. Japan s iron triangle of politicians, bureaucrats, and client industries, combined with a flawed financial liberalization process and policy errors by the Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance, brought Japan to an abyss of deflation, recession, and insolvency by the late 1990s. The turning point was the election of Koizumi as prime minister in 2001. Koizumi took advantage of important institutional changes in Japan s electoral system and policy making and implemented many changes in economic policy. The book explores Koizumi s economic reform, new developments in Japanese people s socioeconomic conditions, the politics and economy after Koizumi, and the economic and political challenges facing Japan in the new century.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The World Since 1980
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Thomas F. Cargill • Takayuki Sakamoto
Dimensions:	226 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-67272-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General
LSN:	0-521-67272-4
Barcode:	9780521672726

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