Juhász, Réka; Sakabe, Shogo; Weinstein, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
and unprecedented codification of technical knowledge in Meiji Japan as a natural experiment, we show that this pattern … appeared in Japan only after the Japanese government codified as much technical knowledge as what was available in Germany in … Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization …