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While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data

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A study of the generating functions constructed from special cycles, both divisors and zero-cycles, on the arithmetic surface "M" attached to a Shimura curve "M" over the field of rational numbers.

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How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government.

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Through an integration of systematics, genetics, and related disciplines, the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Biology came into being over fifty years ago. Knowledge of evolution has since been transformed by several revolutions: the way we interpret the fossil record has been radically affected by theories of continental drift and asteroid impact

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Develops techniques based on two ingredients: the theory of perverse sheaves and Larsen's Alternative. These techniques are then used to calculate the geometric monodromy groups attached to some specific universal families of (L-functions attached to) character sums over finite fields.

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The progress of the Greek economy from its low point in 1950 to its healthy state in 1963 is traced in detail by Professor Zolotas, Governor of the Bank of Greece for the last ten years. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from

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Postbellum economic change in the United States required an efficient system by which capital could be transferred to areas where it was relatively scarce. In assessing the structure that evolved to meet this need, John James provides a new and convincing explanation of the forces underlying the integration of separate and local money markets to fo

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In this book, Robert Solomon - author of a history of the monetary order between 1945 and 1981 - presents a history of these and other aspects of this revolution in international finance.

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While traditional price theory has successfully elucidated national income distribution in a perfectly competitive economy, little is known today about the overall working of a noncompetitive economy. This book moves to remedy the imbalance by sketching a general equilibrium theory of a noncompetitive economy. Developing his theory in the world of

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Analyzes labor markets from the real-world perspective: employers have significant market (or monopsony) power over their workers. Arguing that this power derives from frictions in the labor market that make it time-consuming and costly for workers to change jobs, this book re-examines much of labor economics based on this assumption.

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One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated f

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Includes thirteen photographs and many illustrations of some of the great cathedrals of Northern France. This book includes the author's record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and major church leaders.

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In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse. From the first essay, Montaigne places the reader in a world of violent political conflict reminiscent of the French Wars of Religi

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Gives an account of the political meaning of the "Essais" in the context of Montaigne's life and times. This work argues, Montaigne's "Essais" very much reflect his ongoing involvement and preoccupation with contemporary politics - particularly the politics of France's civil wars between Catholics and Protestants.

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The six overlapping studies that make up this book on the poetry of Eugenio Montale analyze a large number of individual poems and, with Le occasioni (1939) as a point of reference, show how they shape and are shaped by changes and continuities that extend from the earliest poems of Ossi di seppia (1925) to the notoriously difficult poems in his cu