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Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s - The Competence of the State (Hardcover)
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Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s - The Competence of the State (Hardcover)
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Although most economists maintain a (justifiable) mistrust of a
government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue
to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith
in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence.
Sharing little skepticism about the government ability, they
continue to expect the best of governmental intervention. To study
government competence in World War II Japan offers an intriguing
laboratory. After all, governments direct wars. They decide whether
to prepare for them, when to initiate them, how to execute them,
and the terms on which to end them. Toward that end, the public
sometimes grants them as much power as it can feasibly grant. And
in Japan during World War II, the public granted the state the
maximum power. In this book, Yoshiro Miwa shows that the Japanese
government did not conduct requisite planning for the war by any
means. It made its choices on an ad hoc basis, and the war itself
quickly became a dead end. That the government planned for the war
incompetently casts doubts on the accounts of Japanese government
leadership more generally.
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