The Business of the Japanese State : : Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective / / Richard J. Samuels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Samuels, Richard J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

The energy markets of modern Japan—a country peculiarly dependent on imported energy—present a paradox for conventional explanations of that country's economic success. State energy corporations are commonplace throughout the industrial democracies, yet nowhere does Japan's strong, "s...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. States, Markets, and the Politics of Reciprocal Consent
• 2. State-owned Energy Corporations in the Industrial Democracies
• 3. A Political History of the Japanese Coal Industry
• 4. A Political History of the Japanese Electric Power Industry
• 5. A Political History of the Japanese Oil Industry
• 6. A Political History of Alternative Energy in Japan
• 7. The Business of the Japanese State
• Notes
• References
• List of Acronyms
• Index