Learning from the Japanese: Japan's Pre-war Development and the Third World: Japan's Pre-war Development and the Third World

by Nafziger,E. Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781563244858
• ISBN10: 1563244853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book looks at Japan's early economic modernization to see if today's low-income countries can learn any lessons. The author focuses on education, technology policy, capital formation, the transfer of savings from agriculture to industry, state aid to the private sector, improvement engineering in the informal sector, low wages, industrial dualism, export expansion, and resistance to Western imperialism (a strategy which included acquiring its own empire) under Japan's "guided capitalism." He criticizes modernization scholars for underemphasizing the damage of imperialism and the importance of economic autonomy and technological learning, the dependency school for prescribing trade reduction and neglecting market exchange-rate policies, and world-system theorists for rejecting the possibility of global economic growth.

Table of Contents

Modern Japanese History by Reign

Period: A Chronology

The Japanese Development

Model Economic Autonomy and Adapting Foreign

Technology Guided Capitalism

The State and Indigenous

Capitalism Transfer of Agriculture Surplus

Low Industrial Wages Industrial Dualism

Export Expansion and Important Substitution

Applying the Japanese Development Model

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