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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
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Routledge
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Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a variety of interesting approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the value of trade, and the role of the state in economic activity. Tessa Morris-Suzuki provides the first... Read more
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Japanese and Western economic thought -- 1. Economic thought in Tokugawa Japan -- 2. The introduction of Western economic thought: from the Meiji Restoration to the First World War -- 3. Economic debates in inter-war Japan -- 4. Post-war Marxian economics -- 5. Economic theory and the 'economic miracle' -- 6. Contemporary Japanese economic thought -- Bibliography -- Index.
Biography
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Associate Professor in Economic History at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Her previous books include Showa: An Inside History of Hirohito’s Japan (1984) and Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan (1988).
