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new overseas Chinese in Japan: What case studies tell us -- Part 3 Robust Society against Natural Disasters -- 6 People …This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia. For the future, the focus … should be on Japan, which can provide "common knowledge" as a public good. The book collects the results of researchers in …
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This book, based on economics and game theory, analyzes the changes that Japan is now facing as a reflection of changes … in Japanese families and society. The author presents a simple framework for the structural relationship among markets …, communities including families, and the state; and uses it to explain the changes that have occurred in Japanese society. Social …
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theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese … theory of civil society in the postwar period, 2) applying the régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan, and 3 …Part I: Postwar Japan and the Theory of Civil Society -- Chapter 1: Political Economy in Japan after World War II …
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This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable...
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values and norms, which is often viewed as damaging to the cultural fabric of a nation or society. Since the global business … countries. But society does not silently accept technologically enforced changes; sometimes technology is seen as an enemy of …-specific technologies, such as the use of genetically modified seeds in agriculture, which has impacted the market and society, are …
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This book contains a unique collection of studies on key economic and social policy challenges faced by countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region in a short- and long-term perspective. Prepared within the EU funded FP7 project on „Prospective Analysis for the Mediterranean...
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the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions … all within the context of visions of a good society …
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This book is a critical analysis of the impact of the financial system on the economy, society and the natural …, designed in the hope that the market will efficiently allocate society’s capital. Instead, the finance sector allocates savings … and investment to maximize its own revenues, with resulting collateral damage to the economy, society and the environment …
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This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...
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This book explores the experience of China's migrant laborers in Shanghai from economic, anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the...
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