Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Terms and Conventions -- Introduction: Inflation and Its Productions -- 1. The Revolution in Prices -- 2. Dramatis Personae -- 3. What Is Capital? -- 4. Flows and Stores -- 5. Japanese Capitalism under Occupation...

The beginnings of central bank cooperation: Tokyo and London, 1895-1914 -- World war and globalization -- Japan emerges as an international creditor, 1915-1918 -- Postwar alignment -- Wall street discovers Japan, Spring 1920 -- Putting the program into action, 1920-1928 -- Making a market:...

This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of...

Japan, inadvertently, has become the outstanding forerunner in a new set of global developments that can be described under the three headings of <italic>deflation</italic>, <italic>downsizing</italic>, and <italic>demography</italic>. New ‘lessons from Japan’ are to be discovered here, and these are not only admonitory ones. Far from it,...