PART I -- Introduction -- 1 Markets, Norms, Constraints -- Prologue -- Markets -- Values, Norms and Ideologies -- Constraints -- Competing or Complementary Paradigms? -- Appendix to Chapter 1 Economic Models -- 2 Before Industrialization -- The Bakuhan System -- Growth in Rice Output and Population -- Reform and Rebellion -- Western Intrusion, Bakuhan Collapse.
PART II -- Industrialization, 1870-1945 -- 3 Meeting the Western Challenge -- The Politics and Policies of the Meiji Restoration -- Raising the Productivity of Agriculture, 1870-1915 -- Early Industrialization and the Zaibatsu -- Trade and International Relations -- 4 Infrastructure and Heavy Industry -- Fissuring Fukoku Kyohei -- Electrification and the Railroads -- The World War I Boom -- A Dualistic Economy Emerges -- The Drive to Empire -- 5 Reform and Renewal -- Taisho Democracy -- Reform of the Educational System -- Reform of Banking and Finance -- City Planning and Physical Infrastructure Expansion -- Population Pressure as the Demographic Transition Begins -- Conclusion -- 6 Under the Shadow of Militarism -- Out of the Crucible of Domestic and International Turmoil -- The Economics of Trend Acceleration and the Long Swing -- Zaibatsu and Shinzaibatsu at Home and Abroad -- The Geopolitics and Economics of the New Order.
PART III -- Convergence -- 7 Japan in the New International Economic Order -- The Cold War and the Golden Age of Convergence -- The Political Economy of the American Occupation -- The Emergence of the Liberal Democratic Party -- 8 Miracle Growth -- Trend Acceleration with a Vengeance -- Agriculture -- Manufacturing -- Labor -- Industrial Structure -- Policy -- Trade -- Miracle Growth: Markets, Norms or Policies? -- 9 The Social Transformation -- Consumerism -- Savings -- Urbanization -- The Revenge of the Environment -- The Demographic Transition Continues -- PART IV -- De-acceleration -- 10 The Slowdown -- The Inevitable Reversal in the Trend Rate of Growth -- A Dramatic Reworking of the Aggregate Economic Balance -- Aging in a Changing Labor Market -- 11 The Bubble Economy -- Japanese System? -- The Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate -- The Bubble -- 12 Stagnation and Reform -- De-acceleration with a Vengeance -- The Political Response -- Paths Walked, Roads Taken.
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Carl Mosk presents three distinct approaches to understanding how and why Japan made the transition from a relatively low-income country mainly focused on agriculture to a high-income nation centered on manufacturing and services.