Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801444497 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Etienne RP said Japan Is Changing, But In Distinctly Japanese Ways. Twenty years ago, Japanese management wall all the rage. Then came a long, protracted slump and attention turned elsewhere. Japan fell into oblivion. But while nobody took notice, an interesting thing happened. The Japanese model implemented its own transformation. It was remodeled into something new, but still distinctly Japanese. How this transformation occurred and what kind of new. Japan's Reform: New Sake in Old Bottle ? Fang ãÂÂConventional wisdom holds that since a major succession in late 1980s, Japan's economic model, once highly praised as an alternative of American "free market" system, has been doomed. Steven Vogel, on the other hand, presented a different view with rich details, arguing that Japan did not relinquish the model in its entirety. Rather, Japan government and industry cooperate. quick and good! Xiaoxu Jin this book is one of my required textbook, I ordered from Amazon, quick action and very good service!
He is the author of Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries, also from Cornell, and editor of U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World. . Steven Vogel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact enacted substantial reforms. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players.. In Japan Remodeled, Steven Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why they were e
"Since early 2002, Japan has been on a steady economic rebound. It isthe best analysis in English of Japan's distinctive market economy."New York Times, 7 January 2007"Vogel's book is a very important contribution that should stand up well for a number of years. I believe he successfully explains why economic reform is not causing a convergence between the Japanese version of capitalism and that of the United States (puncturing a belief that was popular among Wall Street investors in the late 1990s). Vogel, political science professor at the University of California,