An East Asian Route of Industrialization? the Case of Japan, 1868-1937

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51873-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 966 g

Reihe: Library of Economic History

In this book Peer Vries is the first scholar to provide an extensive test of the claim that industrialization in East Asia, in particular in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and World War Two, would have been much more labour intensive than industrialization in the West. He does this by systematically comparing the role and importance of labour and capital in Japan and in a number of Western countries at a similar stage of their industrial development. He uses macro-economic data as well as specific observations by people at the time. It turns out that there is no reason to distinguish a specific labour-intensive Japanese route of industrialization. His comparative analysis provides us with a better understanding of the logic of industrialization in both West and East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vries, Peer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Peer Vries studied economic and social history at Leiden University where he defended his PhD and worked at the History Department until 2007. From 2007 to 2016 he was Professor of Global Economic History at Vienna University. He published several books and many articles in the field of global history.