"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 --...