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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center,
1999
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| 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.