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Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan : The Impact of the Matsukata Reform /

With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization prog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ericson, Steven J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]
Colección:Cornell Studies in Money
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Departures from Orthodoxy
  • 1. From "Ōkuma Finance" to "Matsukata Finance," 1873-1881
  • 2. Orthodox Finance and "The Dictates of Practical Expediency": Influences on Matsukata
  • 3. Austerity and Expansion: The Matsukata Reform, 1881-1885
  • 4. Spending in a Time of "Retrenchment": Industrial Policy and the Military
  • 5. Founding a Central Bank
  • 6. "Poor Peasant, Poor Country"? The Matsukata Deflation
  • Conclusion: The Matsukata Reform as "Expansionary Austerity"
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index