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  title info:
    title: Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society
    sub title: The Japanese Experience
  name:
    name part: Yamada, Toshio.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 225 p. 21 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about "freedom and equality" and "human rights" in the postwar era but could not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan's experience by that central concept of Fordism. Inspired by consideration of Japanese civil society and also by the regulationist framework, the author has forged new analytical concepts such as "companyism" to understand Japanese capitalism including the recent "lost decades", and he elaborates more carefully the concepts of "growth regime" and "institutional change" to grasp the dynamics of the world economy including today's neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in 1) reviving a Japanese theory of civil society in the postwar period, 2) applying the régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan, and 3) offering theoretical reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently, the author pays special attention to the relationship between the political and the economic as well as regulationist tools and the theory of civil society's perspective. The principal message of the book is that capitalism or the market economy must be supported by a sound civil society.
  table of contents: Part I: Postwar Japan and the Theory of Civil Society -- Chapter 1: Political Economy in Japan after World War II -- Chapter 2: Yoshihiko Uchida and his Thoughts on Civil Society: Between Equality in Exchange and Equality as Human Beings -- Chapter 3: Kiyoaki Hirata and his Thoughts on Civil Society -- Part II: The Rise and Fall of Contemporary Japanese Capitalism -- Chapter 4: The Introduction of Régulation Theory in Japan -- Chapter 5: Postwar Japanese Capitalism and Companyist Régulation -- Chapter 6: The Collapse of Companyism and Today's Post-companyist Transformation -- Chapter 7: Analyses of Japanese Capitalism Based on the Régulation Approach: An Overview of Thirty Years of Research -- Part III: Theoretical Considerations of Contemporary Capitalism -- Chapter 8: Stage Theory or Typology?: Methodological Reflections on the Comparative Analysis of Capitalism -- Chapter 9: Economic Crises and Growth Regimes -- Chapter 10: The Neoliberal Regime and its Possible Crisis: A Reflection from the Viewpoint of Institutional Change -- Chapter 11: Transition Economies and State Capitalism.
  note: by Toshio Yamada.
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: International economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary economics
  subject:
    topic: Social Policy
  subject:
    topic: Economic Policy
  subject:
    topic: International Economics
  subject:
    topic: Political Economy/Economic Systems
  subject:
    topic: Institutional/Evolutionary Economics
  classification: JF20-2112
  classification: 361
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science, 14
  identifier: 9789811305177
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0517-7
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    record creation date: 180815
    record change date: 20190614161833.0
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