1. Thirty years of neo-liberal reforms in Japan / Yves Tiberghien -- 2. Is this the end of the J-model of the firm? / Sebastien Lechevalier -- 3. Is Japanese capitalism still co-ordinated? / Sebastien Lechevalier -- 4. What is the nature of the Japanese social compromise today? / Sebastien...

In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and led many economists suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today however, the dominant view today is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the...

This paper analyzes the recent growth of government domestic debt, including central bank debt, using a new data base on government domestic debt in developing countries with large, open financial systems. On average, government domestic debt grew much faster than GDP between 1994 and 2004 and...

During the 1990s commercial bank deposits and capital rose relative to GDP in the major developing countries. This rise largely reflected the dramatic fall in inflation of the 1990s and financial liberalization. But much of this growth in banks' loanable funds was absorbed by increased net...

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: I Am Responsible -- Chapter 1: 267823-The New Fish -- Chapter 2: Leaders Are Not Born, They Are Built -- Chapter 3: Finding Harmonic Wealth -- Chapter 4: Spiritual Warrior -- Chapter 5: Decisions in Chaos --...