内容简介
The 21 st century has the potential to be the age in which all the people on the globe will enjoy a high standard of living in a truly peaceful world. The economic performance of Japan in the 20th century provides an important experience and lesson for this outcome.
In this context the book, which contains both de*ive and analytical materials about the Japanese economy, will afford clues for further discussion. General features of the Japanese economy, together with its historical and geographical background, are first described. Its well-known rapid economic growth in the 1960s is then analyzed quantitatively in the light of econometric findings. The facts on capital accumulation, international trade, technical progress, industrial structure, business cycles, economic development, etc. are presented, and their relations to economic performance are discussed. Elementary economic concepts and theories are also explained with illustrations from the Japanese economy, so that the book may be easily accessible to general readers who will acquire a bird's-eye view of the Japanese econo~theoretical elucidation of its special features.
In this context the book, which contains both de*ive and analytical materials about the Japanese economy, will afford clues for further discussion. General features of the Japanese economy, together with its historical and geographical background, are first described. Its well-known rapid economic growth in the 1960s is then analyzed quantitatively in the light of econometric findings. The facts on capital accumulation, international trade, technical progress, industrial structure, business cycles, economic development, etc. are presented, and their relations to economic performance are discussed. Elementary economic concepts and theories are also explained with illustrations from the Japanese economy, so that the book may be easily accessible to general readers who will acquire a bird's-eye view of the Japanese econo~theoretical elucidation of its special features.