"This study analyses the economic thought in Japan in the critical period from 1930 to 1945. It pays particular attention to how the contemporary Japanese received European and American ideas about the transformation of capitalism from a liberal to controlled or managed economy, and how they...

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...

Main description: Der Band befasst sich mit der Diffusion wirtschaftstheoretischer und -politischer Ideen und Lehren zwischen Deutschland und Japan im Gefolge der Meiji-Restauration. Nach der Öffnung Japans gegenüber dem Rest der Welt importierte das Land in merklichem Umfang ökonomische...

"The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book...