Category Archives: Japan

Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence

Posted on 2017-10-02 by

There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the intense focus on inequality of recent years. There now prevails a quiet presumption … Continue reading →

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State Capacity & the Sino-Japanese Divergence

Posted on 2014-12-08 by

Why China did not industrialise before Western Europe may be a tantalising and irresistible subject, but frankly it’s a parlour game. What remains underexplored, however, is the more tractable issue of why Japan managed, but China failed, to initiate an early transition to modern growth … Continue reading →

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