The Growth Idea : : Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan / / Scott O'Bryan.
Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O'Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of dis...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 b&w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Growth Idea and Early Postwar History
- Chapter 1. A New Mobilization: The Redemption of the Planning Ideal
- Chapter 2. The Measures that Rule
- Chapter 3. New Economics and an Expanding Vision of Prosperity
- Chapter 4. Knowing Growth
- Chapter 5. Structural Ills and Growth Cures
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Selected Titles