Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from the agricultural population...read more

"Japanese Women Working" aims to provide a wide range of perspectives on the study of working women in Japan over the last century. The contributors address issues of state policy towards, and management of, women workers, and also particular groups: domestic servants, hospital care assistants, textile workers, miners, homeworkers, and "professsional" housewives. They highlight many of the issues and decisions that have faced working women in Japan, and question the universal accuracy of the prevailing domestic stereotype of these people. Essays included span a period of rapid economic change in Japan, and look at the country both as developing and as industrialized, indicating the importance of the overall economic environment, as well as cultural factors, in determining women's position in the labour market. Bringing together contributions from historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists from Europe, Japan and the United States, the book emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the study of this subject.

Product Description: During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from the agricultural population...read more

Product Description: In the first half of the twentieth century, as external interest in the industrialisation of Japan grew, an increasing number of books on the topic by western authors were published in English. The authors included here address a wide range of topics, both general and specific...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume examines the central questions about the nature of economic theory, its historical development and its explanatory power. What determines economic distribution? Can pure economic theory itself explain the fundamentals of distribution or is a broader economics incorporating theories of power in society necessary? The book presents the debate through classic statements of each position from two leading economists of the century, Joseph A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays by an international team of scholars provides essential background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).

Product Description: The new institutional economics is one of the the most important new bodies of theory to emerge in economics in recent years. The contributors to this volume address its significance for the developing world. The book is a major contribution to an area of debate still in its formative phase...read more