Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Terms and Conventions -- Introduction: Inflation and Its Productions -- 1. The Revolution in Prices -- 2. Dramatis Personae -- 3. What Is Capital? -- 4. Flows and Stores -- 5. Japanese Capitalism under Occupation...

Japan, inadvertently, has become the outstanding forerunner in a new set of global developments that can be described under the three headings of <italic>deflation</italic>, <italic>downsizing</italic>, and <italic>demography</italic>. New ‘lessons from Japan’ are to be discovered here, and these are not only admonitory ones. Far from it,...