Japan''s Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s : The Competence of the State
by
Yoshiro Miwa
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107026504
ISBN-13
9781107026506
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 22nd, 2015
Print length
482 Pages
Weight
882 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 11.60 x 3.40 cms
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Yoshiro Miwa analyzes the extent to which the Japanese government prepared itself for the Second World War and the war with China that preceded it. He finds the government – despite its reputation for industrial planning – was ill-prepared and draws sophisticated lessons about the ability of governments to plan their economies.
Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government's ability, they continue to expect the best of governmental intervention. To study government competence in World War II Japan offers an intriguing laboratory. In this book, Yoshiro Miwa shows that the Japanese government did not conduct requisite planning for the war by any means. It made its choices on an ad hoc basis and the war itself quickly became a dead end. That the government planned for the war incompetently casts doubts on the accounts of Japanese government leadership more generally.
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