This paper considers the impact that the Vietnam War had on the economic growth of East Asia. Somewhat inexplicably, most of the existing research on the economic growth of East Asia fails to address the influence of the Vietnam War. However, the war demonstrably had a major impact on the...

After reviewing trends in economic growth studies since the mid-1980s, this paper argues the importance of interdisciplinary studies in growth studies. In addition, I present several hypotheses from the perspective of interdisciplinary research on the "long-term stagnation of the Japanese...