Unlocking the bureaucrat's kingdom : deregulation and the Japanese economy / Frank Gibney, editor.

Other author Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxiv, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Deregulation--Japan.
Trade regulation--Japan.
Industrial policy--Japan.
Japan--Economic policy. --1989-.

Contents Long road to regulatory reform: From wartime controls to postwar recovery / Tetsuji Okazaki. Reforming the catch-up economy / Iwao Nakatani. Politicians, bureaucrats, and policymaking in Japan / Yasuhiro Nakasone. Deregulation in Japan and the United States : a study in contrasts / Edward Lincoln. Deregulating Japan's soul / Masao Miyamoto. Reform, Japanese-style / Eisuke Sakakibara -- Protective bureaucracy in action: Who has obstructed reform? / Taro Yayama. Liberalizing Japan's insurance market / Charles D. Lake II. Between bureaucrat and buyer : Japan's nonprofit industry groups / John P. Stern. Bureaucrats in business / Ulrike Schaede. Land factor : an economic diaster / Richard Koo. Making of Japan's failed land policy / Koichi Mera. Myth of regulatory independence in Japan / E.B. Keeln. Japan's financial system / Christopher Wood. Two years after the Kobe earthquake / Edith Terry. Whither deregulation? : an epilogue to Japan's industrial policy / Leon Hollerman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97033784
ISBN0815731264 (alk. paper)
ISBN0815731256 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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