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Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937


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Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Continuities and Changes 2. A Sovereign and Modern State 3. A Powerful State: Politics, Ideology, the Military and the Bureaucracy 4. A Powerful State: The Economy 5. A Capitalist State, Friendly to Employers But Much Less So to Workers 6. A Developmental State 7. A State Promoting Knowledge Transfer and Education 8. Some Comments on What (Supposedly?) Went Wrong 9. A brief Summary Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Peer Vries is Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Netherlands, and has previously held positions as Professor of Global Economic History at University of Vienna, Austria, and Leiden University, Netherlands. His publications include State, Economy and the Great Divergence: Britain and China (2015) and Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth (2013).

Review :
[An] excellent overview of Japanese economic development from the Tokugawa (1600-1867) period until 1937 ... As major survey of the Japanese experience by a leading scholar of the Great Divergence, Averting a Great Divergence belongs on the shelves of all economic historians interested in comparative economic development. [The book] is valuable both for its systematic comparisons and for its polemical stance, which helps clarify key issues. Vries's book is a good and welcome illustration of why non–Japan specialists should be studying Japan. As an introduction to literature, [it offers] a rich comparative history of Japan, [and will be] popular with Japanese [scholars] of the contemporary world. This is a heroic undertaking by Professor Peer Vries to deepen our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining the historic controversy of Japan's alleged volunteer changes towards modernity which we still know so little about. A comprehensive, learned, and incisive account of the role that the Japanese state played in the development of the Japanese economy between the Meiji Restoration and World War 2. Recommended for all scholars of comparative economic and political development.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350121690
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 320
  • ISBN-10: 135012169X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Aug 2019
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937


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