The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1.Tetsuji Okazaki and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (1999), 'Japan's Present-Day Economic System and Its Historical Origin', in The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 1-37[37] --...