Reasonable Men, Powerful Words
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20th century economics
20th century japan
20th century japan the emergence of a world power series
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asian history
Author_Laura Hein
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citizenship
class disparity
economics
economists
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government and governing
japan
japanese culture
japanese economists
japanese history
marxism
military
modernity
national political life
political culture
politically active population
politics
poverty
public policies
social science thinking
social scientists
wealth disparity
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243477
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Reasonable Men, Powerful Words traces the development of political culture in twentieth-century Japan through a social and intellectual biography of six Japanese economists who influenced national political life in significant ways. The global ascendance of social scientists is one of the defining characteristics of modernity. They dedicated themselves to an extraordinary range of public policies, including eliminating poverty, reducing disparities of wealth, reshaping the relationship between government and citizen, building a strong economy devoid of a military component, and creating an educated and politically active populace in Japan.
Laura Hein is Associate Professor of Japanese History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Fueling Growth: Energy and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan, 1945--1960 (1990), and co-editor of Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States (2000).
