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Author:   Robert Boyer ,  Toshio Yamada
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No.5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780415205597

ISBN 10:   041520559
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 April 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: a puzzle for economic theories Robert Boyer and Toshio Yamada Part I Institutional interpretations and theories 1. Japanese capitalism and the companyist compromise Toshio Yamada 2. The hierarchical market-firm nexus as the Japanese mode of régulation Akinori Isogai, Akira Ebizuka and Hiroyasu Uemura 3. Disproportionate productivity growth and accumulation regimes Hiroyuki Uni Part II The wage labour nexus, forms of competition, financial regime: major structural transformations 4. The capital-labour compromise and the financial system: a changing hierarchy Hironori Tohyama 5. 'Industrial welfare' and 'company-ist' régulation : an eroding complementarity Masanori Hanada and Yasuro Hirano 6. The financial mode of régulation in Japan and its demise Naoki Nabeshima Part III What crisis and what futures? 7. The wage labour nexus challenged: more the consequence than the cause of the crisis Robert Boyer and Michel Juillard 8. Growth, distribution and structural change in the post-war Japanese economy Hiroyasu Uemura 9. Beyond the East Asian economic crisis Yasuo Inoue 10. Some limitations on Japanese competitiveness enjamin Coriat, Patrice Geoffron and Marianne Rubenstein Conclusion: an epochal change ... but uncertian future Robert Boyer and Toshio Yamada

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... offers valuable insights into the Japanese crisis...Overall, the book builds a strong and largely successful case buttressing its institutional analysis of the Japanese crisis. In sum, a must-read for serious followers of the Japanese economy. -Eastern Economic Journal, Fall 2002 ... provocative and challenging...a valuable addition to the literature on Japanese political economy. It provides an introduction to an important tradition of political economy, which has valuable insights to offer students of East Asian political economy. -Journal of Contemporary Asia, October 1, 2002

... offers valuable insights into the Japanese crisis...Overall, the book builds a strong and largely successful case buttressing its institutional analysis of the Japanese crisis. In sum, a must-read for serious followers of the Japanese economy. <br>-Eastern Economic Journal, Fall 2002 <br>... provocative and challenging...a valuable addition to the literature on Japanese political economy. It provides an introduction to an important tradition of political economy, which has valuable insights to offer students of East Asian political economy. <br>-Journal of Contemporary Asia, October 1, 2002 <br>

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