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Japan's emergence as a modern state in the middle of the nineteenth
century was a unique socio-political event. The accompanying
economic development - achieved without tariff autonomy and with
practically no injection of foreign capital - was certainly no less
remarkable. A major portion of this important volume discusses how
this transformation was accomplished.This important book presents a
unique insight into the institutional development of capitalism in
Japan through a series of Shigeto Tsuru's papers, some of which are
published here for the first time. The volume also includes a
critical appraisal of Japan's economy during her invasion of China,
discussion of general historical trends in capitalism and an
assessment of the present, and future, economic problems of Japan.
The Economic Development of Modern Japan will be welcomed by
scholars and students with an interest in Japan's economic
development and her present and future role in the world. Economic
Theory and Capitalist Society, the first volume of Shigeto Tsuru's
essays, is also available.
Economic Theory and Capitalist Society is a collection of Shigeto
Tsuru's most important essays written over the period of the past
60 years in the fields of general economic theory, development and
environmental economics, and Marxian political economy. Professor
Tsuru has been a leading critic of the major tenets of modern
economic theory and has been credited in particular for his
comparative studies of aggregate concepts, such as those of
Quesnay, Keynes and Marx. Essentially an institutionalist, the
author reviews the methodological significance of Marx's
contribution, taking up in detail the latter's unique concept of
the 'fetishism of commodities' and discussing the relevance of
Marxian methodology to the analysis of present-day capitalism. The
author's critique of the fundamental equation of growth accounting
developed by Robert Solow, 'Effects of Technology on Productivity',
is one of a number of theoretical papers included in this volume.
It also features a series of important essays on environmental
economics which the author, as a founder of the Japanese
environmental movement, has written over the past half century.
This collection of key articles by one of the most distinguished
Japanese economists will be welcomed by students and practitioners
in the fields of institutional and radical economics, environmental
economics and the history of economic thought. The volume also
includes an autobiographical essay which explains the development
of Professor Tsuru's thought, his education at Harvard in the 1930s
and his experience of post-war Japan. The Economic Development of
Modern Japan, the second volume of Shigeto Tsuru's selected essays,
is also published by Edward Elgar.
This is a compilation of the proceedings and papers presented at an
international conference on the organization of economic
institutions in a dynamic society which includes detailed comment
and discussion sections following each lecture.
This is a compilation of the proceedings and papers presented at an
international conference on the organization of economic
institutions in a dynamic society which includes detailed comment
and discussion sections following each lecture.
The first authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems by
the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues
within a socioeconomic context. In providing an historical account
of environmental disruption in Japan, the author takes a number of
key cases of industrial pollution in the pre-war and post-war
periods and illustrates the effectiveness of taking into account
socioeconomic affairs. Finally, he proposes a set of concrete
countermeasures against environmental problems, applicable to all
developed countries today, aimed at achieving a new 'quality of
life'. First published in 2000, this title is part of the
Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
In these lectures Shigeto Tsuru reappraises institutionalism as a school of thought and discusses its relevance for the issues that face the economics profession today. He begins with a historical perspective by reconsidering Marx as an "institutionalist," which provides a context for a discussion on Keynes, Schumpeter and Veblen. This is followed by an examination of modern institutionalism through the work of Gunnar Myrdal, J. K. Galbraith and William Kapp. He concludes with an evaluation of the future of the institutionalist approach.
Japan's economic reconstruction after total defeat in the Second World War has been an extraordinary phenomenon. Shigeto Tsuru, one of Japan's most eminent economists gives a comprehensive account of the recovery process, and a unique interpretation of the postwar Japanese economy.
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