Japanese Industrial Targeting: The Neomercantilist Path to Economic Superpower

by William R. Nester

Book Overview

Japan achieved it's present economic position by rejecting free trade theory and instead mastering neomercantilist policies which target strategic industries for development with a range of government sponsored cartels, subsidies, import barriers and export incentives. These policies stimulated an economic growth rate which averaged ten percent before 1973, and five percent since, rates four and two times greater than America's during the same periods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349212865
• ISBN13: 9781349212866
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"