Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle

by Mark Metzler

With this book, Mark Metzler continues his investigation into the economic history of twentieth-century Japan that he began in Lever of Empire. In Capital as Will and Imagination, he focuses on the successful stabilization of Japanese capitalism after the Second World War. How did a defeated and heavily damaged nation manage reconstruction so rapidly? What economic beliefs resulted in the "miracle" years of high-speed economic growth?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801451795
• ISBN13: 9780801451799
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher