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BL
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1028901
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b783271
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| Title & Author
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Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy : : past and present /\ edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge contemporary Japan series ;; 6
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1 online resource (xi, 209 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0203028015
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: 0415368227
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: 113420681X
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: 6610478260
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: 9780203028018
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: 9780415368223
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: 9781134206810
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: 9786610478262
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0415368227
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : economic and institutional change in Japan / Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz -- Technology and change in Japan's modern copper mining industry / Patricia Sippel -- Professionalism as power : Tajiri Inajirō and the modernisation of Meiji finance / Katalin Ferber -- Investment, importation and innovation : genesis and growth of beer corporations in prewar Japan / Harald Fuess -- Managing female textile workers : an industry in transition, 1945-1975 / Helen Macnaughtan -- Japan's inter-firm relations : on the way towards a market-oriented structure? / Andreas Moerke -- Global finance, democracy, and the state in Japan / Takaaki Suzuki -- Changes and crisis in the Japanese banking industry / Mariusz Krawczyk -- International mergers and acquisitions with Japanese participation : two cases from the automotive industry / Sigrun Caspary -- Environmental protection and the impact of institutional change / Ilona Koester -- Changes in conducting foresight in Japan / Kerstin Cuhls.
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| Abstract
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Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future. In this book, leading economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as t.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economic History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Comparative.
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Economic history.
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Economic policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.
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Japan, Economic conditions, 1945-
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Japan, Economic policy, 1945-
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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330.952/04
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| LC Classification
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HC462.9.I59 2006eb
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| NLM classification
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83.62bcl
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| Added Entry
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Hunter, Janet.
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Storz, Cornelia.
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