Contents:
Introduction: a puzzle for economic theories
Robert Boyer and
Toshio Yamada Part I Institutional interpretations and theories 1. Japanese capitalism and the companyist compromise
Toshio Yamada 2. The hierarchical market-firm nexus as the Japanese mode of
régulation Akinori Isogai, Akira Ebizuka and
Hiroyasu Uemura 3. Disproportionate productivity growth and accumulation regimes
Hiroyuki Uni Part II The wage labour nexus, forms of competition, financial regime: major structural transformations 4. The capital-labour compromise and the financial system: a changing hierarchy
Hironori Tohyama 5. 'Industrial welfare' and 'company-ist'
régulation: an eroding complementarity
Masanori Hanada and
Yasuro Hirano 6. The financial mode of
régulation in Japan and its demise
Naoki Nabeshima Part III What crisis and what futures? 7. The wage labour nexus challenged: more the consequence than the cause of the crisis
Robert Boyer and
Michel Juillard 8. Growth, distribution and structural change in the post-war Japanese economy
Hiroyasu Uemura 9. Beyond the East Asian economic crisis
Yasuo Inoue 10. Some limitations on Japanese competitiveness
enjamin Coriat, Patrice Geoffron and
Marianne Rubenstein Conclusion: an epochal change ... but uncertian future
Robert Boyer and
Toshio Yamada