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Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868
By (Author) Susan B. Hanley
By (author) Kozo Yamamura
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
International economics
Population and demography
Industrialisation and industrial history
330.952025
Paperback
426
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
According to the Marxist interpretation still dominant in Japanese studies, the last century and a half of the Tokugawa period was a time of economic and demographic stagnation. Professors Hanley and Yamamura argue that a more satisfactory explanation can be provided within the framework of modem economic theory, and they advance and test three imp