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List of contents
Part I. Water and Wood; Chapter 1. Infrastructure, Technology and Geography; A Layered Infrastructure; Infrastructure Driven Growth and the Long Swing; Geographic Concentration; The Giants Compared; The Approach; Appendix A.1. Innovation Waves, Kondratieff Waves and Long Swings; Appendix A.2. Sources of Growth Accounting and the Residual Factor; Appendix A.3. Economic Evolution and Endogenous Growth; Chapter 2. Under Bakufu Rule; Extensive Economic Growth; Intensive Economic Growth; Regional Competitive Advantage; Tokugawa Infrastructure in Decline and Crisis; Chapter 3. Manchester of the Far East; The Balanced Growth Long Swing; From Wards to City; Agriculture in Balanced Growth; Physical Infrastructure; Transportation; Financial Infrastructure: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and the Zaibatsu; Factories and Mechanization; Osaka Triumphant; Part II. Electricity and Steel; Chapter 4. The Transitional and Unbalanced-Growth Long Swings; The Logic of Internal Development and the Impact of Global Economic and Geopolitical Change Physical Infrastructure and Industrialization in the Transitional-Growth Long Swing; The Unbalanced-Growth Long Swing; Chapter 5. Infrastructure; Electricity and Railroads; Lags and the Pressure of Industrial Expansion upon Infrastructure; Land Prices and Speculation; Trucks, Buses and Roads; The Geographic Pull toward Tokyo; Chapter 6. Factories; The Product Cycle; The Proto-Industrialization of Manufacturing and the Industrialization of Proto-Industry; Education and the New Technological Imperative; The Evolution of Banking and the Zaibatsu; A Rich Profusion: Osaka Factories, Large, Medium and Minuscule; Chapter 7. Cities; A Social Fabric under Pressure: Inequality and Well Being; Center, Middle Ring and Periphery; Housing; Local Government as Fiscal and Coordinating Agent; Municipal Planning: Theory and Reality; Tokyo Triumphant; Chapter 8. Conclusions; The Argument Restated; The Rain of Fire; Infrastructure Reworked Once Again; A Rich Vitality
