Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth

Carl Mosk

M.E. Sharpe, Dec 19, 2000 - Business & Economics - 293 pages

This text provides a detailed examination of the industrial development of Japan since th Meiji restoration (1868) and shows the extent to which Japan's own urbanization played a crucial role in its overall economic development.

Contents

• Infrastructure Technology and Geography: 3
• InfrastructureDriven Growth and the Long Swing: 5
• Geographic Concentration: 9
• The Giants Compared: 19
• The Approach: 23
• Innovation Waves Kondratieff Waves and Long Swings: 24
• Sources of Growth Accounting and the Residual Factor: 27
• Economic Evolution and Endogenous Growth: 29
• Under Bakufu Rule: 34
• Intensive Economic Growth: 43
• Regional Competitive Advantage: 47
• Tokugawa Infrastructure in Decline and Crisis: 50
• Manchester of the Far East: 55
• From Wards to City: 63
• Agriculture in Balanced Growth: 75
• Physical Infrastructure: 81
• Transportation: 85
• Merchants Entrepreneurs and the Zaibatsu: 87
• Factories and Mechanization: 96
• Osaka Triumphant: 101
• Electricity and Steel: 111
• The TransitionalGrowth and UnbalancedGrowth Long Swings: 113
• Physical Infrastructure and Industrialization in the TransitionalGrowth Long Swing: 119
• The UnbalancedGrowth Long Swing: 127
• Infrastructure: 136
• Lags and the Pressure of Industrial Expansion on Infrastructure: 149
• Land Prices and Speculation: 157
• Trucks Buses and Roads: 165
• The Geographic Pull Toward Tokyo: 174
• Factories: 181
• The ProtoIndustrialization of Manufacturing and the Industrialization of ProtoIndustry: 194
• Education and the New Technological Imperative: 196
• The Evolution of Banking and the Zaibatsu: 199
• Osaka Factories Large Medium and Minuscule: 201
• Cities: 213
• Center Middle Ring and Periphery: 218
• Housing: 225
• Local Government as Fiscal and Coordinating Agent: 232
• Theory and Reality: 235
• Tokyo Triumphant: 243
• Conclusions: 248
• The Rain of Fire: 254
• Infrastructure Reworked Once Again: 256
• A Rich Vitality: 268
• Bibliography: 271
• Index: 285

Bibliographic information

• Title: Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth
• Author: Carl Mosk
• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2000
• ISBN: 076563855X, 9780765638557
• Length: 293 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; History / Asia / Japan; Social Science / Sociology / Urban