Middlebury

ECON 0438

The Japanese Economy

The Japanese Economy
The Japanese economy offers not only some interesting and idiosyncratic features, but also key insights into current economic issues in China and the United States. In this seminar we will start with the devastation of postwar Japan and then ask how the Japanese addressed pressing economic issues. We will analyze the Japanese fiscal, monetary, and trade policies adopted within Japan and explore how these policies reflected and influenced the financial, business, and labor sectors. We will also trace how Japan's success in constructing a low risk, middle-class society eventually precipitated the problems in the 1990’s that remain unresolved. (ECON 0250 and ECON 0255) 3 hrs. sem
Subject:
Economics
Department:
Economics
Division:
Social Sciences
Requirements Fulfilled:
AAL NOA SOC
Equivalent Courses:
ECON 0338 *

Sections in Fall 2014, School Abroad Japan (Tokyo)

Fall 2014

ECON0438A-F14 Seminar (Freedman)