Change and Continuity in Japanese Postwar Political Economy
M. kUME Ikuo 久米郁男, professeur à l’Université Waseda, Faculté d’économie politique et de science politique, donnera une conférence dans le cadre du séminaire collectif du Centre Japon.
This paper will demonstrate how “market” has been embedded in postwar Japan. While market is the efficient mechanism to allocate scarce resources in our society, its distributional outcomes often create social and political instability. In prewar Japan as well as the 19th century Europe, classical market liberalism brought about a lot of tensions. Partly in response to these tensions, the state expanded its intervention into economy. But this countermovement also resulted in political crisis leading to world wars. Many political economists argue that in the postwar world a sustainable balance between market forces and political intervention, in the form of “embedded liberalism (Ruggie 1982). This paper analyzes how Japanese version of the “embedded liberalism” was consolidated focusing on interaction among party politics, bureaucracies, and market actors in formulating and implementing industrial policies. Then it focuses on how the Japanese version of the embedded liberalism is faced with recent challenges, economic as well as political.
M. KUME Ikuo est spécialiste du monde industriel et du travail japonais, d’économie politique comparée. Vous trouverez des renseignements complémentaires sur son site personnel.
Jeudi 8 mars 2012 de 11h à 13h Salle M. et D. Lombard, 96 bd Raspail 75006 Paris
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Yasuko D'Hulst (27 février 2012). Change and Continuity in Japanese Postwar Political Economy. Carnets du Centre Japon. Consulté le 13 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m9mp