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April 2024, Volume 50, Issue 2
- 115-119 Introduction to special issue of the Japanese political economy: The rise and fall of the export-led industrialization model in the changing global economy
by Tomoo Marukawa - 120-140 How can the value added of Vietnam’s export industries be increased?
by Haruhiko Nakamura & Tomoo Marukawa - 141-160 India’s growth in the era of secular stagnation
by Eri Ikeda & Kannan Kumar - 161-184 Korea’s economic growth and the growth model in the changing global economy
by Kang-Kook Lee - 185-206 Japanese climate capitalism? Toward an understanding of industry’s changing attitudes toward climate change mitigation in Japan
by Myles Carroll - 207-228 Interbank organization and central banking: Beyond M. Itoh’s contribution to the theory of credit and crisis
by Hideaki Tanaka - 229-252 The welfare effects of partial tariff reduction in Japan
by Akihito Asano & Michiru Sakane - 253-258 Book review of Modern Japanese Economic Thought: An Intellectual History to 1950
by Gilles Campagnolo
January 2024, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial introduction
by Nobuharu Yokokawa & Costas Lapavitsas - 5-24 The Japanese history of Marxian value-form analysis: Focusing on the Unoist approach
by Kei Ehara & Akihito Imai - 25-46 Unoist contributions to the triangular debate on money theory in Japan
by Tsuyoshi Yuki - 47-62 Keynes and the drunkard under the lamp post: Making sense of Palley
by Arne Heise - 63-65 Keynes’ denial of conflict: A reply to Professor Heise’s critique
by Thomas Palley - 66-90 Exchange rate misalignment and trade fluctuations in Morocco: Empirical evidence
by Nor-Eddine Oumansour & Zainab Azghour - 91-113 Russo-Ukrainian War and the emerging new globalization: a critical review of relevant research
by Charis Vlados & Dimos Chatzinikolaou
October 2023, Volume 49, Issue 4
- 295-307 Introduction: Is secular stagnation in Japan and the world the beginning of a new great depression?
by Nobuharu Yokokawa - 308-323 The crisis of neo-liberal capitalism
by Prabhat Patnaik - 324-345 Persistent institutional malfunctioning in the Eurozone
by Matteo Giordano & Costas Lapavitsas - 346-371 An inquiry concerning Japanese yen swap yields
by Tanweer Akram & Khawaja Mamun - 372-394 Will democracy support switching from targeting to universalism?
by Mauricio Bugarin
July 2023, Volume 49, Issue 2-3
- 137-140 Introduction to special issue of the Japanese Political Economy: The political economy of climate change
by Robert Pollin - 141-168 The political economy of saving the planet
by Robert Pollin - 169-182 Assessing the environmental and climate crisis in the Japanese context: Shigeto Tsuru revisited
by Toshikazu Yamakawa - 183-211 Turkey: Challenges and strategies toward de-carbonization and sustainable development under the age of finance
by A. Erinç Yeldan - 212-230 Greenhouse Suppliers 100: A ranking of corporate producers of greenhouse gas precursors in the USA
by Michael Ash & James K. Boyce & Richard Puchalsky - 231-252 Evaluating the technology path of Japanese steelmakers in green steel competition
by Nozomu Kawabata - 253-273 Living system as the core of material circulation between nature and humans
by Makoto Maruyama - 274-294 Z-factor of the climate crisis
by Rohit Azad & Shouvik Chakraborty
January 2023, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 1-6 Introduction to the special issue on secular stagnation as a new great depression
by Nobuharu Yokokawa - 7-34 Keynes’ denial of conflict: Why The General Theory is a misleading guide to capitalism and stagnation
by Thomas Palley - 35-63 Secular stagnation and fiscal crisis in the United States and China
by Minqi Li - 64-85 Revisiting Baumol’s growth disease in Japan
by Hiroshi Nishi - 86-108 The 60-year downward trend of economic growth in the industrialized countries of the world
by Alan Freeman - 109-135 The economic and institutional dynamics of China’s growing financial influence: a “structural power” perspective
by Efe Can Gürcan & Can Donduran
October 2022, Volume 48, Issue 2-4
- 87-89 Introduction: Feminism in Asia and money and finance
by Nobuharu Yokokawa & Yoshie Hori - 90-106 Filipina women’s resilience and survival strategies in the global economy: Focusing on Japan–Philippines relations since the 1970s
by Yoshie Hori - 107-128 Making and unmaking of housework in Rural Japan
by Fumi Iwashima - 129-148 Social reproduction process in colonial Hong Kong: The shifting gender relations of the intra-east Asian economy
by Fumie Ohashi - 149-169 The return of inflation and the weakness of the side of production
by Costas Lapavitsas - 170-177 G. A. Epstein’s critique of MMT re-estimated
by Makoto Itoh
January 2022, Volume 48, Issue 1
- 1-7 Four years of the renewed Japanese Political Economy
by Nobuharu Yokokawa - 8-26 The demand for and supply of elderly care in Japan
by Tomoo Marukawa - 27-48 World inequality, Latin America catching up, and the asymmetries in power
by Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna - 49-66 A modern monetary theory advocate’s response to ‘modern monetary theory on money, sovereignty, and policy: A marxist critique with reference to the Eurozone and Greece’ by Costas Lapavitsas and Nicolás Aguila (2020)
by Phil Armstrong - 67-86 Consumption tax and productive government expenditure in DSGE model
by Minoru Hayashida & Ryoichi Namba & Hiroyuki Ono & Masaya Yasuoka
October 2021, Volume 47, Issue 4
- 281-302 Introduction: Japan’s secular stagnation and the American mirror
by Radhika Desai - 303-324 Japanese capitalism in multiple crises
by Makoto Itoh - 325-345 Wolfgang Streeck in Tokyo: Japan’s secular stagnation as a delayed crisis of democratic capitalism
by Myles Carroll - 346-364 Secular stagnation: real problems and statistical illusions
by James Galbraith - 365-386 Beyond secular stagnation: A digital and green economy?
by D. Hugh Whittaker - 387-402 Review article: Reflections on compressed development: Time and timing in economic and social development
by Nobuharu Yokokawa
July 2021, Volume 47, Issue 2-3
- 95-120 Introduction to the special issue of Japanese Political Economy on international income inequality
by Alan Freeman - 121-145 Financialization and income inequality: An empirical analysis
by Kang-Kook Lee & Md Abu Bakkar Siddique - 146-162 Income inequality: Past, present and future in a political economy perspective
by Pascal Mickael Petit - 163-189 Transformation of the class structure in contemporary Japan
by Kenji Hashimoto - 190-212 On the labor theory of value as the basis for the analysis of economic inequality in the capitalist economy
by Naoki Yoshihara - 213-237 “We do not want to survive; we want to thrive.”: Japanese agricultural cooperative’s seven decades of overcoming degeneration
by Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu - 238-260 Preferences for redistribution in Japan
by U. Furkan Yuksel - 261-280 Interpretation of Chapter 17 of The General Theory and reconciliation between the endogenous money supply and the liquidity preference theory
by Tosihiro Oka
March 2021, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 1-8 Introduction to Special Issue on feminism and gender research in Japan
by Diane Rosemary Elson - 9-26 Why do Japanese women suffer from the low status?: The impact of neo-liberalist reform on gender
by Chizuko Ueno - 27-43 Impact of Marxist feminism on Japanese women’s movement: Focusing on the domestic labor debates
by Kumiko Ida - 44-63 Gender equality, paid and unpaid care and domestic work: Disadvantages of state-supported marketization of care and domestic work
by Sumika Yamane - 64-81 Development, gender, and asymmetries between Mexico and Japan
by Alicia Girón - 82-94 The reproductive crisis in neoliberal capitalism: Commenting on D. Elson’s recent paper
by Makoto Itoh
October 2020, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 227-229 Debating modern monetary theory
by Costas Lapavitsas & Bob Rowthorn - 230-239 Is government debt net wealth?
by Robert Rowthorn - 240-260 The Job Guarantee and the Phillips Curve
by William Mitchell - 261-286 Does the national debt matter?
by L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan - 287-299 External debt matters: What are the limits to monetary sovereignty?
by Jan Kregel - 300-326 Modern monetary theory on money, sovereignty, and policy: A marxist critique with reference to the Eurozone and Greece
by Costas Lapavitsas & Nicolás Aguila
July 2020, Volume 46, Issue 2-3
- 95-101 Introduction: International economic governance in a multipolar world
by Radhika Desai - 102-126 The US vs China: Economic models in the pandemic stress test
by Radhika Desai - 127-151 The construction of “post-hegemonic multipolarity” in Eurasia: A comparative perspective
by Efe Can Gürcan - 152-175 Export restrictions in the Japan-China-U.S. Trilateral relationship
by Tomoo Marukawa - 176-199 Vertical dis-integration and vertical re-integration: Limits to the modern production system
by Yasuhito Moriahra - 200-226 Structuring of transborder flows of national industrial Capital: Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, and China in the 2000s and 2010s
by Xiaoming Huang
January 2020, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-16 Good money drives out bad: Introduction to the featured section on “The evolution of diverse e-money: Digital-community currencies and cryptocurrencies”
by Makoto Nishibe - 17-41 Beyond the veil of money: Boundaries as constitutive elements of complementary currencies
by Rolf F. H. Schroeder - 42-64 Federalism and cooperation for community currencies: Some ideas on the need for intercommunity clearing systems
by Louis-Maxime Joly - 65-82 State involvement in cryptocurrencies. A potential world money?
by Juan J. Duque - 83-93 Marx’s theory of value for socialism
by Makoto Itoh
October 2019, Volume 45, Issue 3-4
- 105-111 Introduction: Is the Uno school approach relevant to understanding present-day capitalism?
by Nobuharu Yokokawa & Richard Westra - 112-131 How to apply Uno theory to contemporary capitalism in multiple crises
by Makoto Itoh - 132-160 The legend of Unoism in Japan
by Thomas T. Sekine - 161-183 Buy now, pay later: The great unravelling of the commodity-form
by Robert Albritton - 184-212 An Unoist perspective on the agrarian question in capitalist development
by Richard Westra
April 2019, Volume 45, Issue 1-2
- 1-3 Introduction: Money, finance, and capitalist crisis
by Nobuharu Yokokawa & Costas Lapavitsas - 4-19 Profitability trends in the era of financialization: Notes on the U.S. economy
by Costas Lapavitsas & Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz - 20-42 The comparative advantage of the U.S. shadow banking system and the role of the U.S. dollar
by Junji Tokunaga - 43-67 Building blocks for the macroeconomics and political economy of housing
by Engelbert Stockhammer & Christina Wolf - 68-80 Marx’s Financial Capitalism
by Makoto Nishibe - 81-103 Financialization and the impasse of capitalism
by François Chesnais
October 2015, Volume 41, Issue 3-4
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 53-79 Cranes and Kiwis: Postal system privatization and institutional realignment
by Anthony John Duggan - 80-111 Economics, culture, and electoral reform: The case of Japanese agricultural trade negotiations
by Jarrod Hayes & Hirofumi Kawaguchi
April 2015, Volume 41, Issue 1-2
- 1-13 Diffusion of Japanese preferential trade agreements: Why is no evaluation underway?
by Ulli Jamitzky - 14-35 The “third arrow” or friendly fire? The LDP government’s reform plan for the Japan agricultural cooperatives
by Hironori Sasada - 36-51 Social norms, gender identity, and high-earning wives’ housework behavior in Japan: An identity economics framework
by Jun Ando
2014, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 3-4 Publisher's Note on the Editorial Plan for
by The Editors - 5-28 Family Characteristics and Educational Expenditures in Japan and the United States
by Yoko Mimura - 29-68 The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Democratic Party of Japan
by Kenji Kushida - 69-113 The Run on Daily Foods and Goods After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
by Masahiro Hori & Koichiro Iwamoto - 114-115 Call for Papers for Special Issues of on Abenomics and on Diversity and Institutional Change in the Japanese Economy and Society
by The Editors
2012, Volume 39, Issue 4
- 3-41 Changes in Dual-Earner Couples' Housework Behavior
by Jun Ando - 42-59 Empirical Analysis of Dual-Earner Couples' Housework Behavior Using the Japanese Version of the General Social Survey (JGSS)-2006 Data
by Jun Ando - 60-78 New Optimal Income Tax Theory and Japan's Income Tax System
by Shigeki Kunieda - 79-108 Long-Term Trends in Leisure and Work Hours
by Naoki Mitani - 109-124 Are Japanese Households Financially Healthy, If So, Why?
by Charles Horioka - 125-125 Publisher's Note on the Retirement of David Flath from the Editorship of and the Announcement of a New Editor, a New Title, and a New Editorial Plan
by The Editors - 127-127 Author Index to , Volume 39 (Spring 2012—Winter 2012-13)
by The Editors
2012, Volume 39, Issue 3
- 3-29 Determinants of Academic Performance in Japan
by Masakazu Hojo - 30-48 Study on the Employment of Female College Graduates in an Age of Employment Equality
by Li Shangbo - 49-68 Japanese Bureaucracy
by Atsushi Tsuneki - 69-76 Why Do We Tip Taxicab Drivers?
by David Flath - 77-98 An International Comparison of Institutional Requisites for Gender Equality
by Margarita Estévez-Abe - 99-135 The "Will" to Save in China
by Ting Yin - 136-136 Publisher's Note: Subscribe to M.E. Sharpe's Asian Studies journals and receive FREE online access to the complete archives. Special discount prices available
by The Editors
2012, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 3-36 Are There Any Cournot Industries in Japan?
by David Flath - 37-48 Perceived Consequences of Immigration in Japan Depend upon Frequency of Contact with Foreigners
by Eiji Yamamura - 49-86 Corporate Governance and the Role of Women
by Akira Kawaguchi & Kimitaka Nishitani - 87-107 Okun's Law and Employment Adjustment
by Yoshio Kurosaka
2012, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 3-47 An Empirical Analysis of the Relationships of Substitution and Complementarity Between Regular and Nonregular Employees in Japanese Firms
by Masao Yamaguchi - 48-71 The Possibility of Pursuing Both Marriage/Childbirth and Employment, and the Development of Nursery Schools
by Takashi Unayama - 72-104 Labor Supply in Workplaces with Inherent Hazards
by Reo Takaku - 105-130 United Kingdom Fund Managers and Institutional Investors' Attitudes Toward Japanese Equities
by Harald Conrad & Jim McCafferty - 131-131 Publisher's Note: Complete Digital Archives of Selected M.E. Sharpe Journals Are Now Available Free of Charge Exclusively to 2012 Institutional Subscribers
by The Editors
2011, Volume 38, Issue 4
- 3-27 Gasoline Tax Rates from the Perspective of Optimal Taxation Theory
by Akihiro Kawase - 28-64 The Influence of Government Size on Economic Growth and Life Satisfaction
by Eiji Yamamura - 65-108 Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life Using Labor Market Data
by Naomi Miyazato - 109-135 Monetary Policy Effectiveness and Yield Curve Dynamics
by Mohamed Aazim & James Rhodes - 136-136 Publisher's Note: Complete Digital Archives of Selected M.E. Sharpe Journals Are Now Available Free of Charge Exclusively to 2012 Institutional Subscribers
by The Editors - 137-138 Author Index to , Volume 38 (Spring 2011—Winter 2011-12)
by The Editors
2011, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 3-29 Identity and Couples' Housework Sharing
by Jun Ando - 30-70 Prudential Regulations and Banking Behavior in Japan
by Wako Watanabe - 71-91 Effects of Husband's Education and Family Structure on Labor Force Participation and Married Japanese Women's Earnings
by Yukichi Mano & Eiji Yamamura - 92-118 What Discourages Participation in the Lay Judge System of Japan?
by Eiji Yamamura - 119-119 Publisher's Note: Complete Digital Archives of Selected M.E. Sharpe Journals Are Now Available Free of Charge Exclusively to 2011 Institutional Subscribers
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2011, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 3-18 Altruism and the Care of Elderly Parents
by Miki Kohara & Fumio Ohtake - 19-44 A Stochastic Forecast Model for Japan's Population
by Yoichi Okita & Wade Pfau & Giang Long - 45-78 Nontraditional Financial Policies
by Shinichi Fukuda - 79-104 The Taylor Rule in Japan
by Kensuke Miyazawa - 105-123 Factors Determining the Employment of Single Mothers
by Shinobu Takada - 124-124 Publisher's Note: Complete Digital Archives of Selected M.E. Sharpe Journals Are Now Available Free of Charge Exclusively to 2011 Institutional Subscribers
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2011, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 3-39 Marriage Promotion Policies and Regional Differences in Marriage
by Yukinobu Kitamura & Takeshi Miyazaki - 40-58 Do Birth Allowances Increase the Birthrate?
by Ryuichi Tanaka & Toshiaki Kouno - 59-80 The Bond Market and Fiscal Balance
by Toru Nakazato - 81-120 The Recent Internationalization of Japanese Banks
by Jonathan Batten & Peter Szilagyi
2010, Volume 37, Issue 4
- 3-5 Business Aspects of the Kyoto Hanamachi: Introduction
by Kumiko Nishio - 6-19 Chapter 1. The Kyoto Hanamachi
by Kumiko Nishio - 20-35 Chapter 2. Geiko, Maiko, Ochaya, and Okiya
by Kumiko Nishio - 36-46 Chapter 3. "No First-Time Customers"
by Kumiko Nishio - 47-60 Chapter 4. The Life of a Maiko
by Kumiko Nishio - 61-73 Chapter 5. No Wallet Required
by Kumiko Nishio - 74-89 Chapter 6. The Hanamachi Evaluation System
by Kumiko Nishio - 90-102 Chapter 7. The Women's Vocational Schools for the Arts
by Kumiko Nishio - 103-124 Chapter 8. The Kyoto Hanamachi Enterprises
by Kumiko Nishio - 125-127 Afterword
by Kumiko Nishio - 128-131 Glossary
by The Editors - 132-134 Bibliography
by The Editors - 135-136 Author Index to , Volume 37 (Spring 2010-Winter 2010-2011)
by The Editors
2010, Volume 37, Issue 3
- 3-36 Revitalizing the Japanese Economy by Socializing Risk
by Charles Horioka & Reiko Kanda - 37-52 Chapter 1. Income Risks Faced by Contemporary Japanese Households
by Naohito Abe - 53-61 Chapter 1. Income Risks Faced by Contemporary Japanese Households
by Shuhei Aoki - 62-73 Chapter 2. Thinking About Measures to Address Employment Risk
by Kengo Yasui - 74-128 Chapter 3. Policy Response to Risks in Foreign Countries
by Shuhei Aoki & Naoki Shimoi & Kimiya Nakagomi
2010, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 3-22 Reinventing the Lender of Last Resort
by Kenneth Kuttner - 23-57 Japan's Brain Drain
by Yukiko Murakami - 58-82 Governance Structures and Management Efficiency in Japanese Companies
by Tomohiko Noda & Masaru Ichihashi - 83-119 Estimate of the Production Function of Education
by Takashi Oshio & Shinpei Sano & Kaori Suetomi - 120-127 Determinants of Job-Related Stress of Academic Economists in Japan
by Ana Maria Takahashi & Shingo Takahashi
2010, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 3-39 Labor Force Participation Rates of Older Workers in Japan
by Atsuhiro Yamada - 40-78 An Empirical Analysis of the Wage-Tenure Profile Using Firm-Level Panel Data in Japan
by Ryo Akahane & Jiro Nakamura - 79-110 The Small Saving Tax Exemption and Japanese Household Asset Allocation Behavior
by Shizuka Sekita - 111-129 Economic Effect of Labor Unions
by Mitsunori Todate
2009, Volume 36, Issue 4
- 3-30 Financing Behavior of Japanese Firms
by Koji Sakai - 31-60 Empirical Study on Subsidiary Reacquisition Among Japanese Companies
by Minoru Otsubo & Yusuke Miyoshi - 61-104 The Value of MBA Education in the Japanese Labor Market
by Ryusuke Shimizu & Yoshio Higuchi - 105-134 The Trend Toward Nonregular Employment Among Young Workers, 1994-2003
by Yanfei Zhou - 135-136 Author Index to , Volume 36
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2009, Volume 36, Issue 3
- 3-27 Inequality in Japanese Education
by Masakazu Hojo - 28-60 What Is the Economic Value of Japanese Longevity?
by Masaaki Kawagoe - 61-95 The Education Gap in the Postindustrial Era
by Namie Nagamatsu & Tōru Kikkawa - 96-127 States, Multinational Corporations, and Institutional Arrangements
by Kaoru Natsuda
2009, Volume 36, Issue 2
- 3-22 Working Hours and Taxation
by Shigeki Kunieda - 23-45 Long Working Hours in Japan
by Kazuya Ogura - 46-77 Japan's Free Trade Agreement Strategy
by Shujiro Urata - 78-102 Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Raising the Statutory Penalties for Copyright Crime on the Incidence of Crime
by Atsushi Ushiyama - 103-114 Impacts of Changing Crude Oil Prices and Macroeconomic Conditions on Short-Term Output Fluctuations in Japan
by Yu Hsing
2009, Volume 36, Issue 1
- 3-26 The Effect of Election Outcomes on the Allocation of Government Spending in Japan
by Keiko Tamada - 27-47 A Quantitative Analysis of Market Competition and Productivity
by Makoto Funakoshi & Kazuyuki Motohashi - 48-105 Effectiveness and Transmission Mechanisms of Japan's Quantitative Monetary Easing Policy
by Yutaka Harada & Minoru Masujima - 106-136 The Tax System and Labor Supply
by Masayoshi Hayashi
2008, Volume 35, Issue 4
- 3-21 Monetary Regimes and Inflationary Expectations
by Shumpei Takemori & Lioudmila Savtchenko - 22-63 Transition to the Gold Standard System and Korekiyo Takahashi's Opinion Statement
by Tsuneo Kamiyama - 64-106 Occupational Career Types of Baby-Boomers and Their Effects on Employment Pattern Selection
by Ma Xinxin - 107-132 The Effects of Regulation on Japan's Pharmaceutical Research and Development
by Ryuhei Wakasugi & Harue Wakasugi - 133-134 Author Index to , Volume 35
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