The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan 9780824837563
Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth.
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Table of contents :
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
