Financial stabilization in Meiji Japan : the impact of the Matsukata reform /

Financial stabilization in Meiji Japan : the impact of the Matsukata reform /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ericson, Steven J., 1953- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xi, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cornell studies in money Cornell studies in money.
Subject:	Matsukata, Masayoshi, -- 1835-1924. Matsukata, Masayoshi, -- 1835-1924. Finance, Public -- Japan -- History -- 19th century. Economic stabilization -- Japan -- History -- 19th century. Economic history. Economic stabilization. Finance, Public. Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1868-1918. Japan. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12023664

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ISBN:	9781501746918 150174691X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Discusses how Japan's finance minister Matsukata Masayoshi carried out his program of financial stabilization in the early to mid-1880s by pursuing policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one"--
Other form:	Online version: Ericson, Steven J., 1953- Financial stabilization in Meiji Japan. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501746925

Table of Contents:

From Ōkuma finance to Matsukata finance, 1873-1881
Orthodox finance and the dictates of practical expediency : influences on Matsukata
Austerity and expansion : the Matsukata reform, 1881-1885
Spending in a time of retrenchment : industrial policy and the military
Founding a central bank
Poor peasant, poor country? : the Matsukata deflation.