TY  - GEN
T1  - Averting a Great Divergence : State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937.
A1  - Vries, P. H. H.
LA  - English
PP  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1107567140
AB  - The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
OP  - 321
CN  - HC462
SN  - 1350121681
SN  - 9781350121683
SN  - 9781350121690
SN  - 135012169X
SN  - 9781350121676
KW  - Economic development : Japan : History.
KW  - Japan : Economic conditions.
KW  - Japan : Economic policy.
KW  - Développement économique : Japon : Histoire.
KW  - Japon : Conditions économiques.
KW  - Japon : Politique économique.
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
ER  -