chapter 1 Introduction and summary of the book -- chapter 2 The economic growth record in Japan -- chapter 3 The … Economy for Japan -- chapter 5 IT and productivity growth: Theoretical and empirical framework -- chapter 6 The East Asian … growth process and IT: Implications for Japan -- chapter 7 Information and communications technology and productivity growth …

Japan -- chapter 3 "What are the questions?" -- chapter 4 An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy …

Japan's place in the contemporary economic world -- The nineteenth-century transformation of the Japanese economy … privatization of Japan's public corporations -- Is Japan different? implications for economic growth -- Economic prospects for Japan …

Japan and France--two countries with markedly different institutional characters than the United States … capture and rule by subgovernments than the more centralized political systems found in France and Japan. Sheingate …