The Role Of Ie In The Configuration Of Japanese Capitalism: An Institutionalist Model
Abstract
China's economic and business success in recent decades has caught the attention of the academic community, which has analyzed the Chinese case from different perspectives. This interest in the Chinese case has been accompanied by a certain neglect of other cases of economic success of particular interest from the perspective of Economic History and Economic Thought, such as the Japanese case, which was almost a century ahead of the Chinese one. Japan has come to be considered an appendix of China on multiple occasions. This paper analyzes, under institutionalist premises, the elements of the social organization of feudal Japan that influenced modern economic organization, as well as the most significant thoughts in this model, emphasizing that Confucianism cannot be the central element that explains the configuration and emergence of modern Japan during the Meiji era.
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