Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth

by J. Mark Ramseyer

Book Overview

Employing a rational-choice approach, Professor Ramseyer studies the impact of Japanese law on economic growth in Japan. Toward that end, the author investigates the way law governed various markets and the way that people negotiated contracts within those markets. For much of the period at stake, the Japanese government was an oligarchy rather than a democracy; the judges operated a civil rather than common law regime; the economy grew modestly but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521048257
• ISBN13: 9780521048255
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"