Poverty, Equality, and Growth

In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to account for why political actors succeeded in crafting a program that won acceptance, it is necessary to look beyond their interests and to identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Harvard University Asia Center

Editions

1

Pages

416

ISBN

9780674009585

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