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This book re-visits the phenomenon of Japanese capitalism in light of the fate of the North Atlantic and developing economies and place it in a longer historical political and geopolitical economy of capitalism from a variety of political and disciplinary perspectives.
List of contents
Introduction: Japan's secular stagnation and the American mirror 1. Japanese capitalism in multiple crises 2. Wolfgang Streeck in Tokyo: Japan's secular stagnation as a delayed crisis of democratic capitalism 3. Secular stagnation: real problems and statistical illusions 4. Beyond secular stagnation: A digital and green economy? 5. Reflections on compressed development: Time and timing in economic and social development 6. Re-emergence of Asia and the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economy in Super Long Waves of Capitalist World Systems
About the author
Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director of Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of several books including
Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013) and
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2022).
Makoto Itoh was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a Member of the Japan Academy. He has taught widely at many universities, including the New School for Social Research, New York University, Cambridge University and London University. His books include
Value and Crisis, and
The Japanese Economy Reconsidered.Nobuharu Yokokawa is a Fellow of Musashi Institute for Social Sciences and an Emeritus Professor at Musashi University, Tokyo. He is Editor-in-Chief of
The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history and development economics.
Summary
This book re-visits the phenomenon of Japanese capitalism in light of the fate of the North Atlantic and developing economies and place it in a longer historical political and geopolitical economy of capitalism from a variety of political and disciplinary perspectives.
