Discusses the development of wage structure and economic growth in postwar Japan. Overview of wage structure and its causes prior to World War II; Labor supply and demand in the post-World War II period; Condition of trade unions after World War II. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

In his final work, one that distills decades of research and thought, a distinguished economic thinker turned social scientist and philosopher confronts three crucial questions facing the world at the end of the century: How and in what form can a harmonious and stable post-cold war world order...