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Japan's economic planning and mobilization in wartime, 1930s-1940s : the competence of the state /

"Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the governme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miwa, Yoshirō, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government's ability, they continue to expect the best of governmental intervention. To study government competence in World War II Japan offers an intriguing laboratory. In this book, Yoshiro Miwa shows that the Japanese government did not conduct requisite planning for the war by any means. It made its choices on an ad hoc basis and the war itself quickly became a dead end. That the government planned for the war incompetently casts doubts on the accounts of Japanese government leadership more generally"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781139207812
1139207814
9781316128848
1316128849
9781316131022
1316131025