The Japan That Never Was

Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country

• Author(s): Beason, Richard, Dick Beason, Dennis Patterson, Distinguished Professor of Law Dennis Patterson,
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Pages: 214
• ISBN_10: 0791460398
  ISBN_13: 9780791460399
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Business & Economics / International / General , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Political Science / Political Economy ,

Description:... In this book, the authors address Japan’s economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan’s past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan’s political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s was long in the making, the authors offer an alternative explanation for Japan’s postwar political-economic trajectory and a better understanding of the challenges that Japan currently faces.