Chap. 1: Jiang Xiaojuan: Economic transition and industrial development. Relevance, rationale, and significance to theories on economic transition. Chap.2: Marukawa, Tomoo: The Chinese television industry. An example of gradual transition. Chap. 3: Toshio, Tajima: Formation of Chinese-type...

Among the phenomena in economics that are not yet well-understood is the fat-tailed (power-law) distribution of firm sizes in the worldś economies. Different mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this distribution of firm sizes are discussed in the present paper. The paper uses the...

1. The Integrated State of Global Production Chain -- 2. Bismarck and German Consensus -- 3. The Meiji Restoration and Industrial Focus -- 4. The New Rome and The US Exceptionalism -- 5. The Current Entrenched Global Gentrification -- 6. The Balancing Acts by Large Industrial Economies -- 7. The...