Revolutionary Change

A classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German, French, and Korean. This carefully revised edition not only brings the original analysis up to date but adds two entirely new chapters: one on terrorism, the most celebrated form of political violence throughout the 1970s, and one on theories of revolution from Brinton to the present day.

Revolutionary change

History

Johnson, Chalmers A.

World

University of London P

118p cloth, from a Cambridge college library, dustjacket, internally clean and bright, hardly any signs of previous use, excellent

Autopsy on people's war (Quantum books)

University of California Press

"Mr. Johnson's research on the Chinese Communists' wartime expansion, according to the documentation recorded by Japanese intelligence and his comparison of it with that of the Yugoslav Communists, is a pathbreaking work in comparative history."--John K. Fairbank.

Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power the Emergence

Stanford Univ Pr

Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Stanford University Press

From dust jacket notes: "Central to an understanding of Japan's 'miracle' - the unprecedented economic growth that has made Japan the second most productive open economy in history - is the role of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), an elite bureaucratic department with no precise equivalent in any other country. This study, the first in any language, describes MITI's origins, structure, and activities from its beginnings in the 1920's to the immediate aftermath of the international oil crisis of 1973-74...."

MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975

Business & Money

Economics

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy. Although MITI was not the only important agent affecting the economy, nor was the state as a whole always predominant, I do not want to be overly modest about the importance of this subject. The particular speed, form, and consequences of Japanese economic growth are not intelligible without reference to the contributions of MITI. Collaboration between the state and big business has long been acknowledged as the defining characteristic of the Japanese economic system, but for too long the state's role in this collaboration has been either condemned as overweening or dismissed as merely supportive, without anyone's ever analyzing the matter.The history of MITI is central to the economic and political history of modern Japan. Equally important, however, the methods and achievements of the Japanese economic bureaucracy are central to the continuing debate between advocates of the communist-type command economies and advocates of the Western-type mixed market economies. The fully bureaucratized command economies misallocate resources and stifle initiative; in order to function at all, they must lock up their populations behind iron curtains or other more or less impermeable barriers. The mixed market economies struggle to find ways to intrude politically determined priorities into their market systems without catching a bad case of the "English disease" or being frustrated by the American-type legal sprawl. The Japanese, of course, do not have all the answers. But given the fact that virtually all solutions to any of the critical problems of the late twentieth century―energy supply, environmental protection, technological innovation, and so forth―involve an expansion of official bureaucracy, the particular Japanese priorities and procedures are instructive. At the very least they should forewarn a foreign observer that the Japanese achievements were not won without a price being paid.

MITI and the Japanese miracle : the growth of industrial policy, 1925-1975

Asia

Charles E.Tuttle Co.

Format Hardcover Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group Incorporated

Communist Policies toward the Intellectual Class: Freedom of Thought and Expression in China (Communist China Problem Research)

Politics & Government

Praeger

Japan's Public Policy Companies (Aei-Hoover Policy Studies ; 24)

Reference

AEI Press

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