The traditional macroeconomics of the period since World War II, as well as the more recent rational expectation and neo-Keynesian approaches, analyze one-commodity economies. The international version of this model, in its simplified extreme, is the monetary model of the balance of payments or,...

Hasn't Japanese politics, or more broadly, hasn't Japanese society of late been steadily making a "shift rightward"? For some time now I have been asking people for their personal opinions about this point and have been paying special attention to interviews and other articles in magazines and...