Product Description: As Japan's decade-long economic stagnation continues, there has been much analysis of the immediate macroeconomic problems that confront the Japanese economy. This book looks past the short-run challenges to the future of Japan and highlights the intermediate and longer-term issues that country faces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Analysis of consumption and saving decisions by households has always been one of the most active areas of research in economics―and with good reason. Private consumption is the most important component of aggregate demand in a capitalist economy, and explaining consumption is the key element in most macroeconomic forecasting models...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)