The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan

by Scott O'Bryan

Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O'Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824832825
• ISBN13: 9780824832827
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"