After the fierce class struggles in the first postwar years, a societal model describing Japan as a general middle-class society with outstanding equality in opportunities and outcome became dominant. In recent years, a new societal model of Japan as a divided society has replaced this general...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: National Economies in Globalization -- Part I: Neoliberal Model: The Case of the United States -- Chapter 3: Globalization and the U.S. National Economy -- Chapter 4: Recent Transformation of the U.S. Economy -- Part II: Statist Coordination Capitalism: The...