Japan That Never Was

Dick Beason is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta and the coauthor (with Jason James) of The Political Economy of Japanese Financial Markets: Myths versus Reality. Dennis Patterson is Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.

• Tables and Figures Acknowledgments I. The Misunderstood Country 1. The Japan That Never Was2. How Different Is Different? Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Economic Policy Making in Postwar Japan II. Political Economics in a Capitalist Japan 3. The Problem of Japanese Industrial Policy4. Management Practices and Labor Relations: A Japanese System or Economic Incentives?5. The Postwar Japanese Economy: From High Growth to Structural Adjustment III. Politics and Policy Making in a Democratic Nation 6. The Electoral Origins of Japan's Economic Policies7. Political Change and Economic Policy Making8. Postwar Japanese Politics: From LDP Predominance to Coalition Politics IV. Japan in the New Millennium 9. The Past in Japan's Political-Economic Future Notes References Index