For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the "keiretsu, " or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within "keiretsu" groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In "The Fable of the Keiretsu, " Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend. In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the "keiretsu" was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of "keiretsu," the authors debunk several related OC factsOCO as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a OC main bank, OCO that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business."

The Fable of the Keiretsu Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy

J. Mark Ramseyer

Yoshiro Miwa

University of Chicago Press

The role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election raised questions in the minds of many Americans about the relationships between judges and political influence; the following years saw equally heated debates over the appropriate role of political ideology in selecting federal judges. Legal scholars have always debated these questions—asking, in effect, how much judicial systems operate on merit and principle and how much they are shaped by politics.The Japanese Constitution, like many others, requires that all judges be "independent in the exercise of their conscience and bound only by this Constitution and its laws." Consistent with this requirement, Japanese courts have long enjoyed a reputation for vigilant independence—an idea challenged only occasionally, and most often anecdotally. But in this book, J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen use the latest statistical techniques to examine whether that reputation always holds up to scrutiny—whether, and to what extent, the careers of lower court judges can be manipulated to political advantage.On the basis of careful econometric analysis of career data for hundreds of judges, Ramseyer and Rasmusen find that Japanese politics do influence judicial careers, discreetly and indirectly: judges who decide politically charged cases in ways favored by the ruling party enjoy better careers after their decisions than might otherwise be expected, while dissenting judges are more likely to find their careers hampered by assignments to less desirable positions.Ramseyer and Rasmusen's sophisticated yet accessible analysis has much to offer anyone interested in either judicial independence or the application of econometric techniques in the social sciences.

Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan (Studies in Law and Economics)

Eric B. Rasmusen

Aspen Treatise for Business Organizations

Aspen Publishing

Book by Klein, William A., Ramseyer, J. Mark

Cases and Materials on Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations (University Casebook)

William A. Klein

Foundation Pr

This is a statutory supplement that includes statutes and rules relevant to all business entities.

Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations: Statutes and Rules, 2002 ed.

Stephen M. Bainbridge

This is a statutory supplement that includes statutes and rules relevant to all business entities. Suitable for use with all textbooks and casebooks for such courses.

Business Associations, Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Corporations, 2005 Statutes and Rules

Business

West

This is the 2008 case supplement to the Klein, Ramseyer and Bainbridge's Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnership and Corporations, 6th Edition.

Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnership and Corporations, 6th Edition, 2008 Supplement (University Casebook)

Foundation Press

This statutory supplement includes statutes and rules relevant to all business entities. It is suitable for use with all textbooks and casebooks for such courses. It is includes all updates to the statutes and rules.

Business Associations-agency, Partnerships, Llc's and Corporations, 2009 Statutes and Rules

Business Associations Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Corporations, 2010 Statutes and Rules

This is the 2010 case supplement to the Klein, Ramseyer and Bainbridge's Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnership and Corporations, 7th Edition.

Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations, 7th, 2010 Supplement (University Casebook)

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