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"This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods" defined as non-market mediated goods not limited to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a...
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Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern …" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603-1868), and by … comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry …
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Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the...
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