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Poverty, equality, and growth : the politics of economic need in postwar Japan /
"In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center,
1999
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
174. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to account for why political actors succeeded in crafting a program that won acceptance, it is necessary to look beyond their interests and to identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781684173181 1684173183 |