{"product_id":"9781350196179","title":"Averting a Great Divergence : State and economy in Japan, 1868-1937","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAverting a Great Divergence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peer Vries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] excellent overview of Japanese economic development from the Tokugawa (1600-1867) period until 1937 ... As major survey of the Japanese experience by a leading scholar of the Great Divergence, \u003ci\u003eAverting a Great Divergence\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the shelves of all economic historians interested in comparative economic development.” —\u003ci\u003eEH.Net\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a heroic undertaking by Professor Peer Vries to deepen our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining the historic controversy of Japan's alleged volunteer changes towards modernity which we still know so little about.” —\u003ci\u003eKent Deng, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A comprehensive, learned, and incisive account of the role that the Japanese state played in the development of the Japanese economy between the Meiji Restoration and World War 2. Recommended for all scholars of comparative economic and political development.” —\u003ci\u003eMark Koyama, Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350196179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40780610765006,"sku":"9781350196179","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_d87bcc0e-1a4d-4fc8-abef-0adaff858986.jpg?v=1642227035","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350196179","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}