{"product_id":"financial-stabilization-in-meiji-japan-steven-j-ericson-9781501746918","title":"Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's \u003ci\u003eFinancial Stabilization in Meiji Japan \u003c\/i\u003eoverturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program--a sort of precursor of the \"neoliberal\" reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s--Matsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthodoxy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Matsukata financial reform has become famous largely for the wrong reasons, and Ericson sets the record straight. He shows that Matsukata intended to pursue fiscal retrenchment and budget-balancing when he became finance minister in late 1881. Various exigencies, including foreign military crises and a worsening domestic depression, compelled him instead to\u003ci\u003e increase \u003c\/i\u003espending by running deficits and floating public bonds. Though he drastically reduced the money supply, he combined the positive and contractionary policies of his immediate predecessors to pull off a program of \"expansionary austerity\" paralleling state responses to financial crisis elsewhere in the world both then and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a new and much-needed recalibration of this pivotal financial reform, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Stabilization in Meiji Japan\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that, in several ways, ranging from state-led export promotion to the creation of a government-controlled central bank, Matsukata advanced policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one. Ericson shows that Matsukata Masayoshi was far from a rigid adherent of classical economic liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven J. Ericson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150174691X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501746918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Steven J. Ericson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43996287074559,"sku":"9781501746918","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4d1ad603-c1e3-422a-9573-51a79cc0b37b.jpg?v=1683340819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/financial-stabilization-in-meiji-japan-steven-j-ericson-9781501746918","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}