This working paper addresses the matter of Japan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth from 1990 on (and in particular the slowness of its growth relative to other advanced industrial states). Taking into account the sharp contraction of its working-age population, it presents calculations of...

This working paper takes up the subject of the highly publicized announcements of the German and Japanese governments of sharply increasing their defense spending and puts it into context. In particular it considers1. The longer history of Germany and Japan's movement away from their post-World...

This paper extends the author's prior use of CPI-adjusted current dollar figures to examine American and British deindustrialization by similarly using the method to adjust United Nations current dollar figures regarding these nations' manufacturing output alongside the data for Germany and...

This note, a follow-up to the author's earlier consideration of German and Japanese announcements of greatly enlarged defense spending in 2022 (German and Japanese "Rearmament" in Context:A Note on German and Japanese Defense Spending Plans in the Wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War), addresses...