The paper offers a comparative analysis of household wealth in the main industrial countries: the United States, the … United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Particular attention is devoted to Italy. We distinguish between … financial wealth, real assets, indebtedness, and net worth. In commenting the empirical evidence, the literature on the …

an emerging site of institutional influence over farmers, agricultural cooperatives (nokyo). This failure was due to … dominated by the conservatives. Nonetheless, this conservatism of Japanese farmers was not due to inherent cultural orientations … of the rural population nor was it simply a product of land reform. The transformation of farmers into a key pillar of …