"It is not only in Japan that traditional employment systems are being called into question. It has become conventional wisdom on the OECD conference circuit that we are entering a new era of intensified global competition in which only the most and quot;flexible" firms can survive....

"It is widely acknowledged that the contemporary unemployment problem is very largely a problem of unemployed unskilled workers. This paper argues a. that high levels of unemployment and increasing dispersion in the primary labour income distribution are intimately related; b. that both reflect...

"This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those countries share the assumptions dominant today in Britain and America - that managers should be intent solely on creating shareholder value and that...

Introduction / Ronald Dore and Radha Sinha -- Memoirs of Japan, 1925-30 / E.F. Penrose -- Depression and protection / Michael French and Thomas Wilson -- Japan and two world economic depressions / Martin Bronfenbrenner -- The Japanese economy in the interwar period / Takafusa Nakamura --...