书目名称 | Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era |
编辑 | Haruhito Takeda |
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概述 | Introduces recent academic works on industrial policies during the high-growth era of postwar Japan (1950-80).Makes recent academic works by Japanese scholars accessible to a widerreadership.Introduce |
丛书名称 | Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan |
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描述 | The aim of this book is to analyze Japan‘s high-growth economy, in particular to clarify the kinds of changes in people’s lives that were generated by high growth. The present volume focuses not on the macro-economic mechanisms that expanded the scale of the economy, but on the micro-economic changes that were effected in everyday life. The emergence of a mass consumption society as a result of economic growth suggests that people‘s lifestyles and consumer behavior changed in various ways. .The first chapter focuses on the apparel industry‘s expanding market as it corresponded to changes in consumer behavior. Even as consumer life became more comfortable and abundant, consumers were becoming uneasy about the environmental deterioration associated with high growth. The second chapter examines how the Japanese government addressed emissions regulations while drawing on the lessons of America‘s experience with the same issue..The change in industrial structure brought aboutby economic growth inevitably resulted in the decline of other industries. Chief among these was the coal-mining industry, which, with the onset of a full-scale energy revolution, lost its role as energy supplier ow |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | high-growth era; mass consumption society; Japanese modern history; industrial policy in Japan; consumer |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0709-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-10-9232-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-10-0709-5Series ISSN 2364-2394 Series E-ISSN 2364-2408 |
issn_series | 2364-2394 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |