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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Economics
Course Code KA325
Theme・Subtitle 日本と東アジアの経済成長史研究1
Class Format Face-to-face (partially online)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.2・9B02
Credit 2
Course Number ECX5720
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes QA341日本経済特殊講義1と合同授業
Text Code KA325

【Course Objectives】

Post-war East Asian economy has experienced long period of high or compressed growth parallel to the cold war. From perspective of economic history, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China and their surrounding 4 regions and countries have achieved great economic growth based on industrialization despite lag in their progress. In human history this phenomenon is only observed in Easy Asia. Amidst this, Japan has constructed high-growth mechanism through the so-called investment cycle model. Through these, Japan has recorded roughly 10% annual growth from 1955 to crude oil crisis 1973. Although Japan seems like different country if we look at foreign capital inflow and high dependency on trade, it is still the prototype for high growth. Through comparative perspective, professor will clarify how these high-growth mechanisms work in Japan and East Asia, and why they had inevitably end.

【Course Contents】

Students will read The Historical Origins of The High Economic Growth in East Asia by Kazuo Hori (2016, Kyoto University Press), The high-growth Economy in Japan by Takeda Haruhito (2011, Yuhikaku publishing), and related papers. Students will explore mechanisms of high economic growth based on these.

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