Western economics in Japan : the early years
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Western economics in Japan : the early years
Thoemmes , Kyokuto Shoten, 1999
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Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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v.1200290229,
v.2200290237, v.3200290245, v.4200290252, v.5200290260, v.6200290278, v.7200290286, v.8200290294
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"Overstone"
"Overstone is an imprint of Thoemmes Press"--T.p. verso
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Description
The opening of Japan to Western influence in the Meiji era is one of the most important subjects in Japanese Studies, and this text argues that it is central to an understanding of modern Japan. There were many dimensions to this transformation including the re-opening of trading and diplomatic links, but the opening of Japan to modern Western ideas was at least as important. No area had greater significance than economics. This set collects together some of the most important and influential economics texts from the age of the "Japanese Enlightenment". The understanding of Western economics in Japan was founded on Japanese translations of these seminal books, which although they did not change the course of economic thinking had a marked impact on Japanese economic development. As examples of successful, 19th-century economics textbooks they are also of great relevance to anyone interested in the dissmenation of economic ideas during this period. The set is introduced by Hiroshi Mizuta, joint editor of "Political Economy Comes to Japan", a study of the diffusion of western economics in Japan during the Meiji period.
This collection: explains some of the distinctive features of Japanese economic thinking during the Meiji period; makes available books which are rare even in Europe; provides material on 19th-century economic pedagogy; and includes a transcript of Boissonade's newspaper article "L'Economie politique au Japan" (1876).
by "Nielsen BookData"