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Zusatztext "Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalism is a true find for readers seeking an in depth and unconventional investigation of East Asian economic systems...the reader is sure to be rewarded by the authors' insightful analyses and gain from the text not only a host of provocative ideas about how the economies of these countries function but also a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the complexities of economic policy! in general." - Kate Barclay! PhD! University of Technology Sydney for the Journal of International and Global Studies Informationen zum Autor Robert Boyer, Senior Economist at CEPREMAP (Centre pour la Recherche Economique et ses Applications), is currently fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2010-2011). He is a contributor to Régulation Theory, i.e. a research program which analyzes how economic institutions evolve in the long run and defines diverse contemporary brands of capitalism. He has published extensively on labor institutions, technical change, institutional macroeconomics, economic history, financial crises and European integration. These publications include Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions (with R. Hollingsworth Eds), CUP, 1977; Japanese Capitalism in Crisis, with T. Yamada, Routledge, 2000; Régulation Theory the State of the Art, with Y. Saillard, Routledge, 2001; The Future of Economic Growth, Edward Elgar, 2004; History Repeating for Economists, An Anticipated Financial Crisis, Prisme n° 13, November 2008, Cournot Centre for Economic Research, Paris. Hiroyasu Uemura is Professor of economics at Yokohama National University, Japan. He is a contributor to Régulation Theory, i.e. a research program which analyzes how economic institutions evolve in the long run and defines diverse contemporary brands of capitalism. He has published books and articles widely in the field of institutional economics and macroeconomic analysis. These include The Institutional Analysis of Socio-economic Systems: Beyond Marx and Keynes, Nagoya University Press, 2007 (with A. Isogai and A. Ebizuka). Furthermore, He also contributed to chapters in Boyer, R. and Yamada, T., Japanese Capitalism in Crisis: A Regulationist Interpretation, Routledge, 2000. Akinori Isogai is Professor of economics at Kyushu University in Japan. He has published books and articles widely in the field of the evolutionary and institutional economics and institutional analysis on the contemporary Japanese economy. His recent publications include The Frontier of Institutional Economics: Theory, Application and Policy, Minerva Shobo, 2004, and The Institutional Analysis of Socio-economic Systems: Beyond Marx and Keynes, (with H. Uemura, and A. Ebizuka), Nagoya University Press, 2007. Klappentext The book traces the specificities of Asian economies back to the formation of their basic institutions after WWII. It follows their transformations after the 1997 Asian crisis until the eruption of the subprime crisis. Zusammenfassung The book traces the specificities of Asian economies back to the formation of their basic institutions after WWII. It follows their transformations after the 1997 Asian crisis until the eruption of the subprime crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. How Has the Japanese Mode of 'Régulation' Changed? Whereabouts of the Companyism Toshio Yamada and Yasuro Hirano 2. The Transformation of the Japanese Corporate System and the Hierarchical Nexus of Institutions Akinori Isogai 3. The Increasing Heterogeneity of Firms in Japanese Capitalism: Facts, Causes, Consequences and Implications Sébastien Lechevalier 4. Labor-and Financial Market Risks and Welfare Spending: A Comparative Study with A Special Emphasis on Japan Hironori Tohyama 5. Increasing Wage Inequality in Japan since the End of the 1990s: An Institutional Explanation Hiroyuk...
