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Analyzes the rates and determinants of savings in postwar Japan.
Author : Tuvia Blumenthal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1684171660
Analyzes the rates and determinants of savings in postwar Japan.
Author : Toshiyuki Mizoguchi
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
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Economic research study of personal savings and consumption behaviour of families in post-war Japan - covers the theoretics of consumption functions, the standard of living, trends, the influence of position in the occupational structure on family budgets, etc., and includes an international comparison of saving and consumption ratios. Diagrams and references.
Author : Charles Horioka
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Fumio Hayashi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262082556
Analysis of consumption and saving decisions by households has always been one of the most active areas of research in economics--and with good reason. Private consumption is the most important component of aggregate demand in a capitalist economy, and explaining consumption is the key element in most macroeconomic forecasting models. To evaluate the effect of government policies invariably requires the knowledge of how they change parameters relevant for household decision making. Understanding Saving collects eleven papers by economist Fumio Hayashi, along with two previously unpublished chapters, for a total of thirteen chapters. The monograph, which brings together Hayashi's empirical research on saving, is divided into three sections. Part I, "Liquidity Constraints", contains five studies that test the well-known implication of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income hypothesis that households shield consumption from income fluctuations. Part II, "Risk-Sharing and Altruism", contains three papers that examine the interactions between related and unrelated households predicted by the hypothesis for the US and Japanese households. The three papers in Part III, "Japanese Saving Behavior", present the author's explanation of the high saving rate in postwar Japan.
Author : Manas Ranjan Sinha
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Saving and investment
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Author : Atsushi Maki
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Consumer behavior
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Author : Ryutaro Komiya
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Japan
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Author : Takafusa Nakamura
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Japan
ISBN :
The economy of Japan, with its high rates of growth, exemplary productivity levels, overall stability, and resilience in the face of financial and other crises, has been one of the wonders of the postwar world. In this book, which has since its first publication in 1981 been a standard text and reference work on the postwar economy, one of Japan's leading economist-scholars describes its workings, its roots in the prewar and wartime years, and its structure and institutions. For this revised second edition, the author has written several new chapters, added data bringing the discussion up to the 1990s, and reorganized the presentation.
Author : Scott O'Bryan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0824837568
Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O’Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O’Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity. Several intersecting obsessions worked together after the war to create an agenda of social reform through rapid macroeconomic increase. Epistemological developments within social science provided the conceptual instruments by which technocrats gave birth to a shared lexicon of growth. Meanwhile, reformers combined prewar Marxist critiques with new modes of macroeconomic understanding to mobilize long-standing fears of overpopulation and "backwardness" and argue for a growthist vision of national reformation. O’Bryan also presents surprising accounts of the key role played by the ideal of full employment in national conceptions of recovery and of a new valorization of consumption in the postwar world that was taking shape. Both of these, he argues, formed critical components in a constellation of ideas that even in the context of relative poverty and uncertainty coalesced into a powerful vision of a materially prosperous future. Even as Japan became the premier icon of the growthist ideal, neither the faith in rapid growth as a prescription for national reform nor the ascendancy of social scientific epistemologies that provided its technical support was unique to Japanese experience. The Growth Idea thus helps to historicize a concept of never-ending growth that continues to undergird our most basic beliefs about the success of nations and the operations of the global economy. It is a particularly timely contribution given current imperatives to reconceive ideas of purpose and prosperity in an age of resource depletion and global warming.
Author : Japan. Keizai Kikakuchō
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1959
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