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

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Japanese Development Model; Chapter 2 Economic Autonomy and Adapting Foreign Technology; Chapter 3 Guided Capitalism; Chapter 4 The State and Indigenous Capitalism; Chapter 5 Transfer of Agricultural Surplus; Chapter 6 Low Industrial Wages; Chapter 7 Industrial Dualism; Chapter 8 Export Expansion and Import Substitution; Chapter 9 Applying the Japanese Development Model;

About the author

Nafziger, E. Wayne

Product details

• Authors: E. Wayne Nafziger, Nafziger E. Wayne
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1995
• EAN: 9781563244858
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-485-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Developing Countries, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Global South / Developing countries