Networks, norms, and alliances -- Japan's financial system and persistence of systemic support -- The politics of the Japanese credit rating industry -- Japan's ideational developments and corporate governance -- The dilution of systemic support and growing contradictions.

In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the "moment" to which most historians and...

Over the last thirty years or so the developments in the area of monetary and macroeconomic policies have been quite substantial. Within the new consensus macroeconomics (NCM), monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of...