1st Edition
Agricultural Growth and Japanese Economic Development
Edited By Michael Smitka
Copyright 1998
362 Pages
by
Routledge
Makes Japanese sources accessible in English Although much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan's leading economic historians have published widely in English. Combined with the work of Western economists who can utilize Japanese-language sources, this series assembles a wide range of English-language articles on the key issues in Japanese... Read more
Introduction, Sources of Long-Term Productivity Growth, Japanese Rice Policy in the Interwar Period: Some Consequences of Imperial Self Sufficiency, Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Revisionist Views on the Impact of the Colonial Rice Policy and the Labor-Surplus Hypothesis, “Feudal Remnants and Tenant Power: The Case of Niigata, Japan, in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Agricultural Research Organization in Economic Development: A Review of the Japanese Experience, Technology Diffusion and Growth Phases, Agricultural Stagnation in the 1920s, a Macroeconomic Perspective, Structural Change and Policy Response in Japanese Agriculture After the Land Reform, Development of Long-Term Agricultural Credit, Effects of the Land Reform on Consumption and Investment of Farmers, Mobilizing Slack Resources for Economic Development: The Summer-Fall Rearing Technology of Sericulture in Japan, The Transformation of Rural Society, 1900-1950, Acknowledgments
Biography
Michael Smitka
