Japanese History - Economic Aspects, Economic Conditions in Asia, Business Cycles - Economics, Japanese History - 1945 - Present
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Overview
The Bubble Economy tells the story of the greatest failure of Japanese economic management since 1945. In the second half of the 1980s Japan's financial madness and arrogance centered on a booming stockmarket and rocketing land prices, which dragged the solid manufacturing economy into a whirlwind of outrageous speculation. Then the boom when spectacularly bust, leaving in its wake a withered stockmarket, crashing land prices, mountains of bad loans, an economy in recession, and a slew of political and financial scandals, graphically exposing the seedy underbelly of Japan's feudal finance system.The Bubble Economy reveals how Japan is spending the first half of the 1990s paying off these excesses in a process that threatens the world's economies with dire consequences, and questions many of the myths built up around Japanese management, pointing to levels of incompetence never before thought possible.
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Japan's recent stock market crash and economic troubles may not portend catastrophe, according to Wood ( Boom and Bust ) in this analysis of Japan's current crisis. The situation will bring needed banking and market reforms, will correct the 1980s ' wildly overvalued assets, will further open Japanese markets to the West and will force the country closer to Western - style capitalism. In the process, however, there are likely to be further devaluations, higher unemployment and possibly serious political unrest. Wood vividly details Japan's feudal structures in banking, insurance, real estate and investment , which upended the world's most impressive economy and brought about the recent scandals. He analyzes the country's international buying sprees, which he views as misconceived, and foresees additional implosions. He is nevertheless optimistic that Japan's effects on the West will be less horrendous than predicted. Wood criticizes current popular notions that Japan's unique culture permits it to play successfully by different rules. This is an important and accessible study. (Oct.)Book Details
Published
December 1, 2005
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9789793780122