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Taking Japan Seriously
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An individualistic, anti-authoritarian society can hardly copy wholesale the institutions of a group-centered, hierarchical society like Japan, but the author argues that these differences do not put Japan's economic success out of the reach of Great Britain and the United States. He examines features of Japanese economic organization and policy-making that reveal alternatives not usually considered open to Western democracies. In some cases, the Japanese system could be profitably imitated; in others, it could be reproduced in new forms. The author asserts that the Western economies have much to gain by taking those possibilities seriously. In one chapter, he suggests that though Americans may take Japan seriously already, they may not be drawing the correct lessons from the Japanese experience.
There are three dominant themes in this book. First, production efficiency; and for explaining the differences in the economic performances of Japan and Great Britain, it is more important. Second, a sense of the fairness of social and economic arrangements is a crucial precondition for production efficiency. Third, that sense of fairness requires a great deal of personal and corporate compromise, including restraint in the use of market power by bargaining partners or adversaries and intervention by government in coordinating, conciliating, and adjudicating.
Taking Japan seriously means more than being impressed by bits of Japanese social technology and seeking to borrow them. It means asking what is behind this social technology and what changes Britain must make in its industrial relations to move toward the economic success of Japan.
Ronald Dore is Visiting Professor at Harvard and Director of the Japanese and Comparative Industrial Research Centre at Imperial College, University of London. He is author of several books on Japan including British Factory -- Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Employment Relations and City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward.
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Title Taking Japan seriously: a Confucian perspective on leading economic issues
Author Ronald Philip Dore
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 0804713502, 9780804713504
Length 264 pages
Contents Introduction 3
Training in industry 20
Dual economy or spectrum economy? 48
Building an incomes policy to last 68
Authority hierarchy and community 85
Longterm thinking and the shareholders role 108
Innovation entrepreneurship and the Community model 125
The road to industrial democracy 145
Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism 169
Industrial policy 193
Meritocracy employment and citizenship 204
Home thoughts from America 226
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Malaya: Communist or Free
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Published in 1954.
Malaya for many years has been recognized as a vital strategic outpost of Western power in Asia. Both because of its position commanding the shipping lanes to the Far East and because of its importance as a major producer of rubber and tin, it has long had a special significance for the economic policies of both the British Commonwealth and the United States. As the home of a large and flourishing community of Overseas Chinese and as the arena for a protracted and difficult Communist-led rebellion, it has in recent years taken on a vital new importance in the efforts of the free world to contain the spread of Communism in Asia.
Despite the vigorous and controversial efforts of General Gerald Templer to crush the insurrection and to complete a far-reaching program of resettling a half million Chinese “squatters” in newly created village communities, the Communist problem in Malaya has not been completely eliminated and the problem of integrating the Chinese population into the Malayan society as a whole is still acute. With the recent Communist advances in Indochina, Malaya seems recently to have become an even more crucially important area.
This book, by an outstanding British authority on Malaya, is the first up-to-date account of the political, economic and social developments in the country since the end of the war. It contains a historical background, an account of Malaya’s international setting and a detailed account of the Communist rebellion phase by phase, as well as chapters on labor, education, Mala economics, and political parties. It dwells at length on the rise of an “Asian consciousness” and analyzes Communist propaganda in Malaya. It subjects General Templer’s “reforms” to critical examination.
Dr. Purcell concludes with a long chapter suggesting what might still be done to keep Malaya from going Communist and retain it within the Western sphere of influence. He believes that, in order to have the will and the means (e.g. a national army) to defend itself against Communist encroachment, Malaya must be self-governing and elections-genuine parliamentary elections-should be held soon.
About Victor Purcell
From 1931 to 1946 Dr. Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service and held a number of appointments, including those of Protector of Chinese and Director-General of Information. He was Principal Advisor on Chinese Affairs on the liberation of Malaya in 1945. On retiring from the Malayan Civil Service, he became an officer of the United Nations. He visited Malaya for the U.N. in 1947 and has paid two visits since then – in 1950 and 1052. He is a Chinese scholar, speaking several dialects, and also speaks Malaya. His books, The Chinese in Malaya and The Chinese in South-Asia are standard in their field. Since 1949 he has been Lecturer in Far Eastern History at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Purcell died January 2, 1965.
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Title: Malaya: Communist or Free?
Author: Victor Purcell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080473321X
Length: 288 pages
A Future for the American Economy
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The American economy is filled with so many contradictions today that it foils the best prophecies and most sophisticated forecasts by economists. This book is about those contradictions and the directions the economy could take in the future. In particular, it is about the central contradiction: government control and market freedom. How this contradiction is resolved is important not only for the United States but also ultimately for countries around the world.
The main thesis of this book is that social factors-rather than purely economic factors-are at the root of the contradiction between market freedom and government control. The author argues that the way markets are socially organized is critical to their capacity for operating independent of government controls. In essence, the social organization of the private economy is the key to the free market system. The economy can function more productively and humanely if effort are made to reduce state controls and create a market system that is socially self-regulated.
Important first steps in this direction are readily observable. The author evaluates two important trends in corporate self-management-worker participation and co-ownership-presenting evidence that these trends are both in the corporate self-interest and in the public interest. Self-regulation is beginning at the intercorporate level, where firms compete and collaborate profitably in trade associations. New cooperative associations of small firms are shown to out-compete conglomerates through “value-adding partnerships” that utilize information technology and require the establishment of cooperative norms.
Self-regulation is advanced through social investment, the allocation of capital by combining ethical and economic criteria. Over $450 billion is now being invested with ethical guidelines, suggesting that a balance of social and economic factors will be a vital part of investment practice in the future. The author suggest that if the United States wants to retain a vital economy at home, it must carefully examine the advantages of the social organization world finance and encourage the popular world markets to regulate themselves without destroying local and national economies.
The author asserts that competition by itself is not a stable basis for market self-regulation, because it leads to government intervention, and he examines case studies of businesses in Europe and the United States that manage trade associations in the public interest. To demonstrate his proposed model of the social market, the author argues for the idea of self-accountable trade associations competing horizontally, vertically, and in value-added chains. The book concludes with policy recommendations for local, state, and the federal governments to encourage self-regulation, suggestion that legislation must be supplemented by voluntary incentives, support for social research, and new modes of professional consultation.
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Title: By A Future for the American Economy
Author: Severyn T. Bruyn
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804718725, 9780804718721
Contents
Introduction 1
Karl Marx , American Standards Association , market economy
THE SOCIAL MARKET 11
economic sociology , Physiocrats , nomic
A Theory of Oppositional Dynamics in the Market 44
Hegel , trade unions , perfect competition
THE EMERGING SOCIAL ORIENTATION 83
labor power , worker cooperatives , John Lewis Partnership
The Growth of Social Investment 119
U.S. Steel , Socially Responsible Investing , McKesson
The Growth of a Social Sector 148
sumer , nonprofit sector , interpersonal relationship
THE SOCIAL GOVERNANCE OF MARKETS 169
Social Economic Council , ABPI , raw milk
SelfRegulation 202
MITI , antitrust , Japan
Social Indexes 228
vertical integration , Sherman Antitrust Act , tegic
The Public Interest 251
allocative efficiency , OSHA , market failure
THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MARKETS 267
Organizational Studies , Alfred Chandler , antitrust
Public Policies 287
AIDA , intrapreneurs , LSI Logic
Conclusion 321
Albany Symphony Orchestra , postindustrial society , Daniel Bell
The Global Market 343
Eurodollar , Third World , U.S. dollar
Notes 365
Worker Cooperatives , Robert Reich , Robert Kuttner
Author Index 419
Severyn , Bruyn , Self-regulation
Schooling and Work in the Democratic State
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A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue thegoals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the Marxian perspective views schools as serving the role of producing wage-labor for capitalistic exploitation.
The authors suggest that the shortcomings of both views are rooted in the fact that they do not recognize the true functions of the democratic, capitalist state. This state is seen as an arena for struggle between forces pushing for egalitarian, democratic, reforms and those seeking to use the resources of the state for private capital accumulation. Depending on which side has primacy at the moment, schools will reflect one set of goals over the other. However, victory is never complete, and the tide of battle has shifted back and forth historically.
The authors develop this theory through interpreting the dynamic relation between U.S. schools and the workplace. Based on this approach, they predict changes in both schooling and work as well as the forms that future conflicts between the contending forces are likely to take.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics, and Henry M. Levin is Professor of Eduction and Affiliated Professor of Economics, at Stanford University.
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Schooling and work in the democratic state
By Martin Carnoy, Henry M. Levin
Published by Stanford University Press, 1985
ISBN 0804712425, 9780804712422
307 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
functionalist , capitalist , social relations
Historical Traditions and a New Approach 7
relations of production , functionalist , U.S. Supreme Court
Education and Theories of the State 26
social-conflict theory , relations of production , capital accumulation
Education and the Changing American Workplace 52
capital accumulation , labor market , Proposition 13
Social Conflict and the Structure of Education 76
vocational education , social mobility , herent
Reproduction and the Practices of Schooling 110
ability group , Huntington School , percentile ranking
Contradiction in Education 144
social equality , profes , school discipline
Reforms in the Workplace 177
trade unions , autonomous work groups , job enrichment
Predicting Educational Reforms 215
mastery learning , flexible modular scheduling , educational vouchers
The Potential and Limits of School Struggles 247
Reaganomics , Educational vouchers , Reagan Administration
References Cited 271
American Economic Review , Althusser , Chicago
Index 299
Levin , Schooling
