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Tables of Contents for Japanese Industrial History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
xi
 
Preface
xv
 
Acknowledgments
xvii
 
Part I. Water and Wood
Infrastructure, Technology, and Geography
3
31
A Layered Infrastructure
3
2
Infrastructure-Driven Growth and the Long Swing
5
4
Geographic Concentration
9
10
The Giants Compared
19
4
The Approach
23
1
Appendix A.1: Innovation Waves, Kondratieff Waves, and Long Swings
24
3
Appendix A.2: Sources of Growth Accounting and the Residual Factor
27
2
Appendix A.3: Economic Evolution and Endogenous Growth
29
5
Under Bakufu Rule
34
21
Extensive Economic Growth
34
9
Intensive Economic Growth
43
4
Regional Competitive Advantage
47
3
Tokugawa Infrastructure in Decline and Crisis
50
5
Manchester of the Far East
55
58
The Balanced-Growth Long Swing
55
8
From Wards to City
63
12
Agriculture in Balanced Growth
75
6
Physical Infrastructure
81
4
Transportation
85
2
Financial Infrastructure: Merchants, Entrepreneurs, and the Zaibatsu
87
9
Factories and Mechanization
96
5
Osaka Triumphant
101
12
Part II. Electricity and Steel
The Transitional-Growth and Unbalanced-Growth Long Swings
113
23
The Logic of Internal Development and the Impact of Global Economic and Geopolitical Change
113
6
Physical Infrastructure and Industrialization in the Transitional-Growth Long Swing
119
8
The Unbalanced-Growth Long Swing
127
9
Infrastructure
136
45
Electricity and Railroads
136
13
Lags and the Pressure of Industrial Expansion on Infrastructure
149
8
Land Prices and Speculation
157
8
Trucks, Buses, and Roads
165
9
The Geographic Pull Toward Tokyo
174
7
Factories
181
32
The Product Cycle
181
13
The Proto-Industrialization of Manufacturing and the Industrialization of Proto-Industry
194
2
Education and the New Technological Imperative
196
3
The Evolution of Banking and the Zaibatsu
199
2
A Rich Profusion: Osaka Factories, Large, Medium, and Minuscule
201
12
Cities
213
35
A Social Fabric Under Pressure: Inequality and Well-Being
213
5
Center, Middle Ring, and Periphery
218
7
Housing
225
7
Local Government as Fiscal and Coordinating Agent
232
3
Municipal Planning: Theory and Reality
235
8
Tokyo Triumphant
243
5
Conclusions
248
23
The Argument Restated
248
6
The Rain of Fire
254
2
Infrastructure Reworked Once Again
256
12
A Rich Vitality
268
3
Bibliography
271
14
Index
285
8
About the Author
293