Japanese capitalism in crisis : a regulationist interpretation / edited by Robert Boyer and Toshio Yamada.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-234) and index.

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: a puzzle for economic theories; Institutional interpretations and theories; Japanese capitalism and the companyist compromise; The hierarchical market-firm nexus as the Japanese mode of regulation; Disproportionate productivity growth and accumulation regimes; The wage labour nexus, forms of competition, financial regime: major structural transformations; The capital-labour compromise and the financial system: a changing hierarchy.

'Industrial welfare' and 'company-ist' regulation: an eroding complementarityThe financial mode of regulation in Japan and its demise; What crisis and what futures?; The wage labour nexus challenged: more the consequence than the cause of the crisis; Growth, distribution and structural change in the post-war Japanese economy; Beyond the East Asian economic crisis; Some limitations to Japanese competitiveness; Conclusion: an epochal changebut uncertain future; Notes; References; Index.

The contributors to Japanese Capitalism in Crisis show that there can be a middle ground between the current extremes of the Japanese economy, and offer two proposals: a deeper understanding of long term development, and an extension of existing theory.

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