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February 03, 2010

Economic Policy Priorities in 2010

Exports to Western markets have significantly declined following the global economic crisis of 2008, preventing the Japanese economy from staging ...

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December 11, 2009

1. Two Views of Capitalism

The 2008 global financial crisis has been a testament to the failure of Adam Smith’s basic neoclassical principle: that making ...

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November 13, 2009

The G20’s Empty Promises

The world’s 20 largest economies agreed in Pittsburgh to coordinate their efforts to overcome the global economic crisis. While they ...

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October 08, 2009

Introduction: Toward the “Second End of Laissez-Faire”

“Globalization” can be understood as a grand experiment to test the laissez-faire doctrine of neoclassical economics, which claims that a ...

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August 27, 2009

Economic Policy Challenges for the Next Administration

The Japanese economy owes its growth over the past five years to dependence on external demand; fundamental structural reforms have ...

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July 13, 2009

Preventing “Housing Refugees”: A Proposal for a Home-Buying System

With bonuses slashed this year, many people will be hard pressed to keep up their mortgage payments. Some will see ...

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April 03, 2009

Toward a Sustainable Business Model for the 21st Century (3)

What is the secret of success shared by Japan’s longest-lived businesses and India’s most venerated corporate group? Call it “community ...

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March 18, 2009

Toward a Sustainable Business Model for the 21st Century (1)

Wall Street greed and lax regulation are routinely blamed for the economic crisis now sweeping the world. But to identify ...

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February 23, 2009

Turning the Crisis into a Once-in-a-Century Opportunity

The current "once-in-a-century" economic crisis has provided us with the opportunity to reflect on the consequences of our rapidly moving ...

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December 08, 2008

Global Financial Crisis Shows Inherent Instability of Capitalism

What can we learn from the global financial and economic crisis? A prominent Japanese economist explains how it reflects the ...

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August 30

Introduction: Craft, Community, and the Cost of Global Capitalism

In a global economy awash in mass-produced goods, handicraft industries are apt to be treated as relics of the past ...

August 26

Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (2)

In the second half of this two-part series, the author explores the complex interrelationship between nuclear energy cooperation and nuclear ...

August 20

Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (1)

With energy demand soaring and global temperatures rising, nuclear power is poised to make a dramatic worldwide comeback. Japanese industry ...

August 10

Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (3)

Because Japan's postal savings system plays a major role in financing government programs, proposed changes to the privatization plan adopted ...

August 5

7. The Wicksellian Theory of Disequilibrium Cumulative Process

Wicksell's starting point was an attempt to reformulate the quantity theory of money from the neoclassical perspective. ...