The Japan That Never Was : Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country.

Intro -- THE JAPAN THAT NEVER WAS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part I. THE MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTRY -- 1. THE JAPAN THAT NEVER WAS -- 2. HOW DIFFERENT IS DIFFERENT? Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Economic Policy Making in Postwar Japan -- Part II. POLITICAL ECONOMICS IN A CAPITALIST JAPAN -- 3. THE PROBLEM OF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 4. MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND LABOR RELATIONS: A Japanese System or Economic Incentives? -- 5. THE POSTWAR JAPANESE ECONOMY: From High Growth to Structural Adjustment -- Part III. POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN A DEMOCRATIC NATION -- 6. THE ELECTORAL ORIGINS OF JAPAN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES -- 7. POLITICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING -- 8. POSTWAR JAPANESE POLITICS: From LDP Predominance to Coalition Politics -- Part IV. JAPAN IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- 9. THE PAST IN JAPAN'S POLITICAL-ECONOMIC FUTURE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z.

Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.

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