"This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan's economic past in the light fresh theoretical perspectives in the study of economic history and...

"By the late twentieth century, Japanese people were renowned as the world's most avid and knowledgeable consumers of fashion, luxury and quality, while the goods that embodied their tastes and lifestyle were becoming a part of global culture. Penelope Francks' book offers an alternative account...

This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the...

Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Great Divergence and Japan So Far -- Chapter 2: The Great Divergence Debate -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Explaining the Great Divergence -- 3.1 Resources, Trade, and Globalisation -- 3.2 Institutions and the Market -- 3.3...