"Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism … (empirics); 5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history; 6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism; Conclusion …

Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism … (empirics); 5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history; 6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism; Conclusion …

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an … industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan … since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan. The …

Part I Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era -- 1 The Japanese Apparel Industry and Consumer Society … from 1950 to the 1970s (Susumu Ishii) -- 2 The Legislative Process of Automobile Exhaust Emissions Control in Japan … Review of Woo Jong-Won, “Mibun no Torihiki” to Nihon no Koyō Kankō (“Transactions over Status” and Japan's Employment …

"This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from … the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan's economic past in the light fresh theoretical … practices on which Japan's post-war economic miracle was based and provides a comparative framework within which the Japanese …