Japan
The developed world's laboratory for what happens after an asset bubble bursts: three decades of balance-sheet repair, cross-shareholdings and, more recently, a genuine governance reform that has changed the equity case.
7 books · 1 people behind it
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- The Bubble EconomyChristopher Wood, 1992
- MITI and the Japanese MiracleChalmers A. Johnson, 1982
- The Holy Grail of MacroeconomicsRichard C. Koo, 2008
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Books 7
Chalmers A. Johnson · 1982 · The founding text on the developmental state and industrial policy.
Richard C. Koo · 2008 · Koo's balance-sheet recession thesis, drawn from Japan's lost decades.
Ezra F. Vogel · 1979 · The high-water mark of Western awe, useful now as a study in extrapolation.
Christopher Wood · 1992 · Written from Tokyo as the bubble deflated; the classic contemporaneous account.
Gillian Tett · 2003 · Ripplewood and Shinsei: the first foreign takeover of a Japanese bank.
Ulrike Schaede · 2020 · Why Japanese firms retreated into high-margin upstream components.
Richard A. Werner · 2003 · A contested but influential reading of the Bank of Japan's credit guidance.