Introduction: Takahashi Korekiyo, the Man Who Brought Japan Out of the Great Depression -- Japan’s Plunge into and Emergence from the Great Depression -- Policy Innovation in the Great Depression -- Sustainability of Public Debt under Stress -- Origins of the Economic Ideas of Takahashi...

Introduction: What’s a Money Doctor? -- Money Doctors in the Medieval/Pre-Modern Period -- Is Oda Nobunaga the Final Champion of the Medieval Era or A Pioneer of the Early Modern Era? -- A Money Doctor in the 16th Century Japan -- Johan Palmstrüch, A Copper Money Doctor: Stockholm Banco and...