Antitrust in Japan /
Before and during World War II, Japan's economy was controlled by power economic concentrations, large family holdings that passed from one generation to another, called zaibatsu. This book is a full assessment of the American postwar attempt to break up these powerful combines. Miss Hadley rec...
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Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Before and during World War II, Japan's economy was controlled by power economic concentrations, large family holdings that passed from one generation to another, called zaibatsu. This book is a full assessment of the American postwar attempt to break up these powerful combines. Miss Hadley recounts both General Douglas MacArthur's efforts to implement the American occupation's antitrust policies and the Japanese government's resistance while it appeared to comply with zaibatsu dissolution. As the Cold War developed, American defense thinkers began to emphasize recovery rather than reform, and conservative American businessmen supported the abandonment of antitrust policy in Japan. The second half of the book examines the consequences of the antitrust measures and reaches conclusions which challenge prevailing Japanese and American views.Originally published in 1970.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(542pages) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781400872053 |
Index Number: | KNX3242 |
CLC: | D931.322.9 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Japan's Combines, Target of Occupation Reform -- 2. Combine Enterprise in Japan -- 3. Japanese-developed Zaibatsu -- 4. Combine Dissolution: Severing Ownership Ties -- 5. Combine Dissolution: Severing Personnel Ties -- 6. The Deconcentration Law and the Antimonopoly Law -- 7. The Public Debate: FEC 230 and All That -- 8. The Dissolution of Two Trading Giants; Financial Institutions Untouched -- 9. The United States Reorients Its Economic Policy in Japan -- 10. The Sale of Securities and Other Deconcentration Developments -- 11. Zaibatsu Yesterday, Business "Groupings" Today Is There a Difference? -- 12. Other "Headless" Combines and Financial Groupings -- 13. Still More Groupings: Subsidiaries and Kombinato -- 14. Concentration Without Monopoly -- 15. Cartels -- 16. Government in the Economy -- 17. The Postwar Performance of the Economy -- 18. Assessment -- APPENDIX -- Index. |