Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic GrowthThis 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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About the Author | |
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Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization and Economic Growth Carl Mosk Limited preview - 2016 |
Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth Carl Mosk No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
agriculture annum growth rates bakufu balanced-growth banks buildup buses canals capital formation chōsa city planning city's companies conurbations core created daimyō demand district downswing dry field economic growth especially exports extensive growth factories figures flow gross domestic product heavy industry Higashinari hinterland important income industrial belt infrastructure innovation investment Japan Japanese Kantō Kantō plain Kinai Kinai region Kondratieff waves Kyoto land prices long-swing machinery manufacturing Meiji Meiji period merchant middle ring Mosk Moving Averages niguruma Nihon Ōsaka Osaka and Tokyo Osaka City Osaka Prefecture Ōsaka-shi shi output paddy percent percentage periphery phase population port prewar production proto-industrial railroad ratio region rice roads role scale economies second long swing sector steam takuchi Tenpozan textiles third long swing tion Tōkaidō Tokugawa period Tokyo prefecture trade tramway transitional-growth long swing transportation trucks upswing various tables Western workers Yodo River zaibatsu
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Organizing Through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System Fei-Ling Wang No preview available - 2005 |