The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective

The energy markets of modern Japan-a country peculiarly dependent on imported energy-present a paradox for conventional explanations of that country's economic success. State energy corporations are commonplace throughout the industrial democracies, yet nowhere does Japan's strong, "s...

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Beteilige Person: Samuels, Richard J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Links:https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735226
Zusammenfassung:The energy markets of modern Japan-a country peculiarly dependent on imported energy-present a paradox for conventional explanations of that country's economic success. State energy corporations are commonplace throughout the industrial democracies, yet nowhere does Japan's strong, "smart" state participate directly in the marketplace to assure the energy supplies on which its commercial competitiveness depends.In The Business of the Japanese State, Richard J. Samuels addresses this paradox by tracing the details of government-industry transactions in the component parts of the market for energy. Drawing upon archival sources and more than one hundred interviews with industrialists and government planners, he reconstructs the political histories that have defined the contemporary Japanese markets for coal, petroleum, electricity, and alternative energies. The key to interventions and accommodations is, he argues, the notion of "reciprocal consent"-in a constantly changing political bargain, the state gets jurisdiction but private industry manages to retain control. The result is a profoundly consensual politics whose character reflects the essence of the contemporary Japanese political economy
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
Umfang:1 online resource (376 pages)
ISBN:9781501735226
DOI:10.7591/9781501735226