Dr. Osamu Shimomura's Legacy and the Postwar Japanese Economy

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Analyzes the  role of the market and government during the High-Growth era of Japan  prudently Portrays the life of an influential and  liberal policy maker of "Income Doubling Plan, Dr. Shimomura, with a  concise post War Japanese economic history Provides vision and  theory for sustaining Japanese already matured Japanese society referring to experiences of the High-Growth era

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Kozo Horiuchi is a professor emeritus, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. He received his BA from the Department of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University in 1968.  He then joined the Development Bank of Japan and received his MA from the Graduate School of Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Returning from the US, he served as a research officer before becoming Chief Economist at the Research Institute of Capital Formation, DBJ. He received his Doctor of Business Administration from Hosei in 2008. While teaching at Hosei, he also studied at the Beijer Institute, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Masayuki Otaki is a professor of economics at the University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science, and academic advisor at the Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan. His main areas of research are macroeconomic theory, environmental economics, educational economics, and economic thought. Born in 1957, Prof. Otaki received a Bachelors degree in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1981 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1990. He was appointed professor of economics at the University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science in 2001.

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