MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
โ Scribed by Chalmers Johnson
- Publisher
- SUP
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 409
- Category
- Library
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p>The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy. Although MITI was not the only important agent affecting the economy, nor was the state as a whole always pred
<p>Despite widespread claims to the contrary, Japan's high-tech industrial policies over the last two turbulent decades have proved to be neither cooperative nor successful. This book focuses on MITI and Japan's giant electronics firmsโtheir ambitions and conflictsโto show that the policymaking proc
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