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This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the "circles of compensation." These cooperative groupings of economic, political, and bureaucratic interests dictate corporate and individual responses to such critical issues as investment and innovation; at the micro level, they explain why individuals can be decidedly cautious on their own, yet prone to risk-taking as a collective. Kent E. Calder examines how these circles operate in seven concrete areas, from food supply to consumer electronics, and deals in special detail with the influence of Japan's changing financial system. The result is a comprehensive overview of Japan's circles of compensation as they stand today, and a road map for broadening them in the future.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 450
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Contemporary Eastern Studies
Publication Date:
01 November 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9798887190013
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Comparative politics, Economic systems & structures, Corporate governance: role & responsibilities of boards & directors
Kent Calder current serves as Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs, as well as Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. He is the author of fourteen books on East Asian political economy, energy geopolitics, comparative urban politics, and Japanese politics, including most recently Global Political Cities (Brookings, 2021); Super Continent (Stanford, 2019); Circles of Compensation (Stanford, 2017); Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (Brookings, 2016); Asia in Washington (Brookings, 2014); and The New Continentalism (Yale, 2012). Calder was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2014, for his contribution to US-Japan relations, and to the academic study of Japan.