The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^355 Nobunaga were allies, Nobunaga conceived the notion that Ieyasu's wife and his son, who w ...
356 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS From 1633, Japanese vessels needed official authorization to leave the country; three year ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST 357 immobilism was typically justified in Confucian terms: "It seems that in state affairs, i ...
(^358) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS nate. And although the lord himself obviously had to live and attend to business in his ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^359 The other two major European imports were eyeglasses and the clock. We know little about ...
360 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Japan's decision to isolate itself from the outside world, to return to tradition and live ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^361 like European vassals, these samurai had no property in the land. The system fed people a ...
(^362) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS payers always need more. (Which is why debtor nations today prefer to negotiate deals; ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^363 townsman dismisses fame and makes profit. He amasses gold and sil ver. That is what he c ...
(^364) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ables, including the products of rural industry.^16 Support from above combined with pr ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^365 This precocious development of pre-factory industry (what some economic historians would ...
(^366) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS advantages over Europe: (1) two hundred fifty years without war or revolution; (2) chea ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^367 Confucian school; that is the way of such challenges to orthodoxy. The rangakusha (expert ...
(^36 8) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS were near to catching up. They came into contact with European knowledge at a number ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^369 market sugar privately. No more need to borrow. Satsuma was soon producing one half the n ...
(^370) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS in 1878 the Satsuma warriors, in their gorgeous robes and terrifying armor, brandishing ...
23. The Meiji Restoration J apan had a revolution in 1867-68. The shogunate was over thrown—really it collapsed—and control of ...
(^372) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS nate, in Kyoto. There the Mikado wrote poetry, performed symbolic religious acts (like ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION 373 other, fomenting intrigues over the succession, spawning cabals, invit- ing subversive appeals to Kyot ...
374 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS (Compare here the misunderstanding over Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor: for the Americans, ...
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