Research Catalog

Title

Strategic economy in Japan / Thomas M. Huber.

Author

Huber, Thomas M.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1994.

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Description

ix, 173 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system. Exploring its essential structure and dynamics, both domestic and international, Thomas M. Huber offers provocative insights into Japan's postwar economy by comparing it to Western national security and military systems rather than exclusively to Western commercial institutions.
• The author highlights the remarkable similarity of "Japan, Inc." to some of the structures and policy dynamics of the U.S. military especially, but also shows how other public institutions offer useful analogies for deciphering Japanese economics.
• Japan's domestic strategies are mirrored in the international realm with MITI, the Export Import Bank of Japan, JETRO, trading companies, and other agencies pursuing national policy goals. The objective of this far-flung activity is international influence, achieved by acquiring production and factors of production.

Subjects

• Industrial policy > Japan
• Japan > Economic policy > 1989-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-166) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Domestic Strategy. 1. MITI: Prospero's World. 2. Neo-Zaibatsu and Cartels: Coordination and Competition. 3. Banks and Policy Companies: Market Conformity. 4. Strategic Corporations: Public Production -- Pt. 2. International Strategy. 5. Global Presence: Structures of Implementation. 6. Strategic Objectives: Tending the Gate and Operations Abroad -- Pt. 3. Conclusion. 7. Strategic Econony: Schumpeter, Napoleon, and Others.

ISBN

• 0813320925
• 081332095X (pbk.)

LCCN

93043012

OCLC

• 29478543
• ocm29478543

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries