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TI  - Welfare and capitalism in postwar Japan
SN  - 9780521856935 (hdbk.)
AV  - HC462.95 EST 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - History
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - Economic history
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History
KW  - Japan
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-327) and index; Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective -- Structural logics of welfare politics -- Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan -- The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s -- Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion -- Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism -- The emergence of trouble in the 1970s -- Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics -- The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?
N2  - This work explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007043012-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007043012-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007043012-t.html
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23797
ER  -