Preface: Dr Gordon Daniels, Reader in History at the University of Sheffield, presented his paper on the Social History of Occupied Japan at a one-day workshop on the Teaching of Japanese Economic and Social History, hel at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre on 16 May 1990. We are grateful...

Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Credit, Speculation, Legislation and Reputation: the Evolution of the Discourse on Commercial Morality in England and Beyond -- Chapter 2. Deceit, Piracy and Unfair Competition: Western Perceptions of the Level of Commercial Morality in Japan -- Chapter 3 – National...