Review of The Japanese Economy by T Ito and T Hoshi; The Japanese Economy by H R Watanabe and The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms by T Hoshi and P Lipscy

Abstract

How does the Japanese economy work and how effective have government policies been in solving its problems? These questions have occupied commentators on the Japanese economy at least since the opening of the country to foreign trade and its economic modernization in the nineteenth century (and arguably longer). Show more