TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunker,Stephen G.
AU  - Ciccantell,Paul S.
TI  - East Asia and the global economy: Japan's ascent, with implications for China's future 
T2  - Johns Hopkins studies in globalization
SN  - 9780801885938 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - HC462.9 .B852 2007
U1  - 330.952 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Baltimore, Md.
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Industries
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Raw materials
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Foreign economic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Growth and crisis in the Japanese economy --; 2; Economic ascent and hegemony in the capitalist world-economy --; 3; The MIDAs-steel-ships nexus --; 4; Creating Japan's coal-exporting peripheries --; 5; Replicating Japan's new model in iron ore --; 6; Transporting coal and iron ore --; 7; The restructuring of global markets and the future of the capitalist world-economy
N2  - "After World War II, Japan reinvented itself as a shipbuilding powerhouse and began its rapid ascent in the global economy. Its expansion strategy integrated raw material procurement, the redesign of global transportation infrastructure, and domestic industrialization. This study identifies the key factors in Japan's economic growth and the effects this growth had on the reorganization of significant sectors of the global economy." "The authors discuss what drove Japan's economic expansion, how Japan globalized the work economy to support it, and why this spectacular growth came to a dramatic halt in the 1990s. They provide valuable insight into technical processes as well as specific patterns of corporate investment by drawing on studies of ore mining, steelmaking, corporate sector reorganization, and port/rail development. East Asia and the Global Economy introduces a theory of "new historical materialism" that explains the success of Japan and other world industrial powers. Here, the authors assert that the pattern of Japan's ascent is essential for understanding China's recent path of economic growth and dominance and for anticipating what the future may hold."--BOOK JACKET
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