Ordinary Economies in Japan - A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950

Zusatztext "Sophisticated." Informationen zum Autor Tetsuo Najita is the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His many publications include Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise! Japan: Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics! and Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan. Klappentext " Ordinary Economies in Japan directs our attention to a subordinate yet powerful theme in modern Japanese economic thought that appeared unobtrusively in the mid-Tokugawa period and found expression in the formation of voluntary! non-hierarchical associations of commoners who purposively organized their self-help activities apart from state authority. Tetsuo Najita's compelling analysis of kô is groundbreaking and explains a great deal about Japanese modernization that economic historians have overlooked or undervalued."-Stephen Vlastos! University of Iowa Zusammenfassung Explores a theme in the economic thought and practice of ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and early modern Japan. This title focuses on the relationship of economics, ethics, and the epistemological premise that nature must serve as the first principle of all knowledge, and illuminates comparative issues of poverty, capitalism, and modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Other Visions of Virtue 2. Commonsense Knowledge 3. The K_ as Organizational Consciousness 4. Work as Ethical Practice 5. H_toku and Modernizing the Nation 6. The Mujin Company Epilogue: A Fragmented Discourse Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Tetsuo Najita, Najita Tetsuo
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2009
• EAN: 9780520260382
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26038-2
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S.; Twentieth-Century Japan: The E; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Asia / General, Economic history, Asian History