Archive for Victor A. Matheson

Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan

Dogs and Demons, by expatriate writer Alex Kerr, is another attempt to explain the malaise into which Japan has fallen over the past decade. Japan’s real-estate and stock-market bubbles have burst with prices falling to one-quarter their previous highs; the Japanese government’s budget deficits dwarf even those run by the United States during the ’80s [...]

17Mar2003 | | 0 comments | Continued

Can Japan Compete? by Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, and Mariko Sakakibara

Perseus Publishing · 2000 · 208 pages · $27.50 Reviewed by Victor A. Matheson What a difference a decade makes. In the late 1980s Japan seemed poised to dominate the world economy. The Japanese had seemingly discovered an improved version of capitalism in which active government intervention in vital export-oriented sectors of the economy, along [...]

1Nov2001 | | 0 comments | Continued

Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics, has been called a “student of the world’s miserable.” Sen’s research has concentrated on the economic problems that affect the world’s poorest citizens: chronic hunger, famine, illiteracy, infant mortality, and disease. For the past 35 years, he has devoted his considerable scholarly talent to [...]

1May2000 | | 2 comments | Continued

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