Systemic Change in the Japanese and German Economies
Author | : Werner Pascha |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0700716343 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780700716340 |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of differentiation are frequently underestimated. Important thematic issues include: contingency, path dependence and complementarity. Examinations of economic globalisation and rapidity of technological change pose questions about the nature of socio-economic system analysis in the future.