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Yoshiro Miwa - Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s

The Competence of the State

Av Yoshiro Miwa

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Beskrivning
Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government's ability, they continue to expect the best of governmental intervention. To study government competence in World War II Japan offers an intriguing laboratory. In this book, Yoshiro Miwa shows that the Japanese government did not conduct requisite planning for the war by any means. It made its choices on an ad hoc basis and the war itself quickly became a dead end. That the government planned for the war incompetently casts doubts on the accounts of Japanese government leadership more generally.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-01-22
  • Mått: 159 x 236 x 33 mm
  • Vikt: 890 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 482
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107026506
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Yoshiro Miwa is a Professor of Economics at Osaka Gakuin University, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, where he obtained his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. He writes on a wide variety of areas. Much of his work has been in industrial organization and his current research concerns the effect of government involvement on economic activity in the 1930s and 1940s. Professor Miwa's books include Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan (1996), State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan (2004), and The Fable of the Keiretsu (2006), the latter co-authored by J. Mark Ramseyser.

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'A leading skeptic of the Chalmers Johnson view of Japanese bureaucratic competence confronts the reality of a country mired - after remarkable successes - in an ill-planned, muddled, and unwinnable war. For Professor Miwa's admirers (of which I count myself one), this powerful broadside confirms his sure combination of historical research with critical economic analysis. For doubters, this exposé of wartime armaments production offers renewed challenges.' Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics and Political Science

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