1st Edition
Japan and the Global Economy Issues and Trends in the 1990s
The revaluation of the yen in 1985 helped stimulate a dramatic increase in the already high level of Japanese outward investment. Few developed countries do not now host a large and growing community of Japanese businessmen and Japanese corporations are now major players in more or less every market. Japan and the Global Economy looks at the reasons for this growth and at the impact of Japanese FDI, both on the countries who receive it and on the Japanese. It was Japanese investment in manufacturing, particularly in high profile industries like automobiles, that first caught widespread attention. Consequently this book pays particular attention to manufacturing, but it also includes individual chapters on the three major trade blocks - the European Community, North America and South East Asia.
Peter Dicken, University of Manchester; David Edgington, University of British Columbia; Richard Florida, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; Martin Kenney, University of California at Davis; B. Nino Kumar, Universitat der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; Tessa Morris-Suzuki, University of New England, Australia; Teeruzo Muraoka, Niigata University, Japan; Neil Reid, Arizona State University at Tempe; Rob Steven, The University of Christchurch, New Zealand
Biography
Jonathan Morris
`Offers the reader a reasonable and balanced overview of the evolving role of Japanese multinational activity in the world economy' - Economic Journal
`...I have already put parts of it to work in an undergraduate economic geography course, and I suspect others will do likewise.' - D.K. Forbes, Environment and Planning
