This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata...

Intro -- The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part 1: Research in Institutional Setting -- 1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities -- 2 The Academization of Parisian...

Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Great Divergence and Japan So Far -- Chapter 2: The Great Divergence Debate -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Explaining the Great Divergence -- 3.1 Resources, Trade, and Globalisation -- 3.2 Institutions and the Market -- 3.3...

From Vietnam's recent acceptance into the World Trade Organization to its post-Vietnam War reform and socialist ideals, this overview concisely examines the cultural, political, and economic changes currently at work in Vietnam within a historical context and then discusses the effects such...