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Title Economic thought in early modern Japan / edited by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Gregory Smits.

Publication Info. Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 298 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 1
Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 1.
Note Contains papers originally presented at two conferences, the first held May 29-June 1, 2008 in Blaubeuren, Germany, and the second in June, 2009 in New York City.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.
Contents Foreword; Foreword to the Volume; Acknowledgments; List of Maps; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Autonomy of Market Activity and the Emergence of Keizai Thought; Money and the State: Medieval Precursors of the Early Modern Economy; Economic Thought Concerning Freedom and Control; Guiding Horses with Rotten Reins: Economic Thought in the Eighteenth-Century Kingdom of Ryukyu; The Shift to Domestic Sugar and the Ideology of 'The National Interest'; A Domain Doctor and Shogunal Policies; The Economic Thought of Shoji Koki and the Tenpo Reforms in Saga Domain.
Confucian Banking: The Community Granary (Shaso) in Rhetoric and PracticeFrom Tokugawa to Meiji: The Economic Thought of a Local Entrepreneur in the Early Meiji Era; Policy Space, Polarities, and Regimes; Glossary; References; Index.
Summary This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capitalism. In discussing such topics as money and the state, freedom and control, national interest ideology, shogunal politics and networks, case studies of the Saga Domain and Ryukyu Kingdom, Confucian banking, early Meiji entrepreneurship, and relationships between macroeconomic fluctuations and policy, the essays here deepen and revise our understanding of early-modern Japan. They also enlarge and refine the analytical vocabulary for des.
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Subject Economics -- Japan -- History -- To 1800 -- Congresses.
Economics.
Japan.
History.
Chronological Term To 1800
Subject Economics -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Chronological Term 19th century
To 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Gramlich-Oka, Bettina.
Smits, Gregory, 1960-
Other Form: Print version: Economic thought in early modern Japan. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004183834 (DLC) 2010018108 (OCoLC)607613496
ISBN 9789004190207 (electronic book)
9004190201 (electronic book)
9789004183834
9004183833