Japan achieved it's present economic position by rejecting free trade theory and instead mastering neomercantilist policies which target strategic industries for development with a range of government sponsored cartels, subsidies, import barriers and export incentives. These policies stimulated an economic growth rate which averaged ten percent before 1973, and five percent since, rates four and two times greater than America's during the same periods. This book analyzes the policy making process, implementation, successes, occasional shortcomings, and challenges posed by Tokyo's neomercantilist policies toward its trade rivals.

Japanese Industrial Targeting: The Neomercantilist Path to Economic Superpower

William R. Nester

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

"The Cold War is over - Japan won!" How true is this popular perception? Will the next century be Japan's rather than America's? Japan has clearly replaced the USA as the world's most dynamic economic power by most financial, manufacturing and technological measures. Japan's success rate rests on the rejection of liberal economics and the adoption instead of neomercantilist policies which nurture both growing and declining industries through a dynamic mixture of corporate collusion and competition. How important is all this? What does it matter if the USA continues to run deficits while Japan amasses huge surpluses, and surpasses the USA in manufacturing, financial and technological power? Should the USA adopt Japan-style neomercantilism or retain its free-market policies? How does continuing American liberalism and Japanese neomercantilism, and the related tremendous shift in the balance of economic power from the USA to Japan, affect American security? Can America's decline be reversed? The book explores these and related questions concerning US-Japan relations in a rapidly changing, interdependent world.

American Power, the New World Order and the Japanese Challenge

Business & Money

The War for America's Natural Resources

This book analyzes the dynamic relationship among natural resource politics, policies, and philosophies. Each chapter explores in depth the development of policies towards the US's soil, wildlife, water, energy, grasslands, minerals, forests, and air.

Economics

A richly illustrated overview of ancient Egypt, from its rise from the marshes to its submission to Rome, explaining developments in art and culture over the centuries. Includes 161 color photos and illustrations, and 10 detailed maps which locate each place in its geographical and historical context. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

A Short History of American Industrial Policies

This book provides an understanding of the sources and consequences of Japan's vast economic and political power. It analyzes the changes and continuities in the basis of Japan's economic and political power, and reveals how Tokyo uses its power to overcome past, present and future challenges.

Foundation of Japanese Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Humanity Press/prometheus Bk

The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823

The Arikara War took place in August 1823 between the United States and the Arikara native Americans near the Missouri River, in present-day South Dakota.[1] Arikara warriors had previously attacked a trapping expedition traveling on the river. The United States responded with forces of 230 soldiers, 750 Sioux, and 50 trappers[citation needed] under the command of U.S. Army Colonel Henry Leavenworth.[1] Although brief, the conflict was noted for two reasons. First, it was the first military conflict between the United States and the western native Americans, setting the tone for future encounters between Americans and the Crow and Blackfeet. Second, Leavenworth did not completely defeat the Arikara. His leniency toward them sparked a great debate between Americans demanding subjugation of the natives and those advocating cohabitation with them. The Arikara eventually settled with the Mandan and Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Many Arikaras and Crows became Indian scouts during the height of the Sioux Wars.

History

Americas

Mountain Pr

The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823 by William R. Nester.

The Old West's First Power Couples: The Frémonts, the Custers, and Their Epic Quest for Manifest Destiny

Rio Nuevo Publishers

A century and a half before the Kennedys and the Clintons, the Frémonts and the Custers were American power couples. John and Jessie Frémont and George and Libbie Custer pioneered the phenomenon. Although little known today, Jessie and Libbie were nearly as famous as their husbands. Each served as her husband's political muse, offering candid advice and spurring him to higher ambitions. They were vivacious women who loved entertaining and being the center of attention. They were also courageous and followed their husbands into the dangers of war, the frontier, and the wilderness. The Old West's First Power Couples neither celebrates nor demonizes the Frémonts and the Custers. Instead each is explored as an extraordinary, gifted, flawed, unique individual who was half of a unique couple that made history and advanced America's Manifest Destiny, for better or worse.

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Japanese Industrial Targeting: The Neomercantilist Path to Economic Superpower

American Power, the New World Order and the Japanese Challenge

The War for America's Natural Resources

A Short History of American Industrial Policies

Foundation of Japanese Power

The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823

The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823

The Old West's First Power Couples: The Frémonts, the Custers, and Their Epic Quest for Manifest Destiny

The Old West's First Power Couples: The Frémonts, the Custers, and Their Epic Quest for Manifest Destiny