Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform

by Steven J Ericson

With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program--a sort of precursor of the "neoliberal" reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s--Matsukata's policies differed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150174691X
• ISBN13: 9781501746918
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher