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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Milly, Deborah J., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 1999
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 174.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. An Essay on Accommodation
  • 2. The State, Economic Growth, and Societal Conflict
  • 3. Principled Policy Development Under the Occupation
  • 4. The Politics of Poverty in the 1950s
  • 5. Integrating Social Protections with Economic Management
  • 6. Knowledge of Poverty at the Top
  • 7. Negotiating Normative Principles.