Author: Hayami, Akira, Asamu Saitô & Ronald P. Toby. (eds).
Title: The economic history of Japan, 1600-1990. Vol. 1: Emergence of economic society in Japan, 1600-1859.
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, [2004]. XV,420 pp. B./w. figs, tables & 2 b./w. maps. Orig. hardcover, d./j. 8vo. - Owner's stamp on first free endpaper.Publisher's retail price: £ 242.50. - First volume in an authoritative economic history of modern Japan, written by leading Japanese scholars. Uses historical and econometric sources to trace the development of Japan's market economy to its rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth century. Addresses the reasons behind the unique nature of Japan's industrialization, examining whether this process was fundamentally different to that experienced in the West.

Keywords: Economy Asia Japan Ethnography Asia Japan Economie Azië Japan Etnografie Azië