Economic Analysis of Families and Society The Transformation of Japanese Society and Public Policies /

• Main Author: Yamashige, Shinji (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, 16
• Subjects: Social policy.; Population.; Economics.; Political Economy/Economic Policy.; Social Policy.; Population Economics.

This book, based on economics and game theory, analyzes the changes that Japan is now facing as a reflection of changes in Japanese families and society. The author presents a simple framework for the structural relationship among markets, communities including families, and the state; and uses it t...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Understanding Social Transformation
• 1 Transformation of the Japanese Society in the 20th Century
•  2 Markets, Communities, and Government: Analytical Framework
• 3 Introduction to Decision Theories
• Part II Economics of Family and Community
• 4 Formation of Families
• 5 Resource Allocations within Families
• 6 Traditional Communities
• 7 New Communities
• Part III Social Policies in Japan
• 8 Population Crisis
• 9 Poverty
• 10 Regional Disparity
• 11 Epilogue: Social Transformation and Public Policies
• Index.