Product Description: This book describes the profound structural change in Japan's agriculture from its politically marginalized, economically fragmented, traditional labour-intensive postwar mode of production to its current dual modern shape of a highly capitalized, politically organized and protected sector...read more

Product Description: Chinaboom. Doch Japan holt auf. Sein Markt ist sieben Mal größer als der Chinas. Dieses Buch schildert die historischen und strukturellen Grundlagen der japanischen Wirtschaft: Organisation der Keiretsu-Konzerngruppen, Verflechtung mit Politik und Ministerien, Sozialbeziehungen in der Wirtschaft, Vertriebssysteme, Management von Personalführung, Entscheidungsfindung und den Kanban-Systemen der Produktion...read more

Product Description: This book sets out to give a straightforward insider's account of the current realities of European integration. It succinctly reviews the reasons and methods of European integration, analyses what the European Union (EU) really does, and examines how funds are spent...read more

Attempting a coherent portrait of the heart of Japan's economic and political decision making, this book presents the top 2000 men occupying the core positions in Japan's ruling party, the central ministries, and in big business and its organizations. Elite career patterns, social origins, upbringing, university education, cognitive orientations and ways of life are reviewed, as are the interactions in the exclusive world of Japan's increasingly hereditary and bureaucratic class of power holders in conservative politics and big business. Other books by Rothacher include "Economic Diplomacy Between the European Community and Japan" and "Japan's Agro-Food Sector: The Politics and Economics of Excess Protection".