EAN: 9789811305160

CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM AND CIVIL SOCIETY - TOS...

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world
economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting
the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed
unique thinking about freedom and equality and human rights in the postwar era but could not
help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the
period. On the other hand  the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its
definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism  based on the elaboration of a new conceptual
framework  but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan's experience by that central
concept of Fordism. Inspired by consideration of Japanese civil society and also by the
regulationist framework  the author has forged new analytical concepts such as companyism to
understand Japanese capitalism including the recent lost decades  and he elaborates more
carefully the concepts of growth regime and institutional change to grasp the dynamics of the
world economy including today's neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in
1) reviving a Japanese theory of civil society in the postwar period  2) applying the
régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan  and 3) offering theoretical
reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently  the author pays special
attention to the relationship between the political and the economic as well as regulationist
tools and the theory of civil society's perspective. The principal message of the book is that
capitalism or the market economy must be supported by a sound civil society.

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