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June 9, 2012

[SSJ: 7508] Kansai Modern Japan Group June Meeting: Mark Metzler on Japan, Schumpeter, and Asian High Speed Growth

From: Scott North
Date: 2012/06/09

Dear Friends,

The Kansai Modern Japan Group is pleased to host a lecture and discussion by Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin, entitled,

Of Booms and Bubbles:
Japan, Joseph Schumpeter, and the Invention of Asian-Style High-Speed Growth

Joseph Schumpeter’s conceptions of entrepreneurship and innovation have had more influence in thinking about those subjects than those of any other scholar. Schumpeter pioneered the study of economic development and of technological paradigm shifts, and he is credited as a forerunner of the emerging field of evolutionary economics. But he is not thought of as a theorist of credit-supercharged high-speed growth. This is what he became in postwar Japan.“The typically Schumpeter-type development” described Japan's developmental course “more definitely than in the case of the other advanced nations,” according to Shinohara Miyohei. Or, according to Ōuchi Hyōe, “this Schumpeter” was “gifted in cunning,” “a stage director of prodigious acrobatic stunts,” who had “a mysterious influence in Japan.” This influence reached a peak around 1960, the moment of the Income-Doubling boom. As leading economists and planners insisted, Schumpeter’s theory was truly apt as a description of the core dynamics of Japan’s boom. It also helps to explain Japan’s bubble, and the global bubbles that have followed it.

This talk is based on Professor Metzler’s new book entitled, Capital as Will and Imagination, out soon from Cornell University Press.

Date: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Time: 6:30-8:30PM, with casual discussion to follow over food and drinks nearby.
Venue: Takatsuki Shimin Kaikan, Room 303. 高槻市民会館
(=高槻現代劇場)、3階、303号の集会室 [NB the venue is お座敷(no chairs) so please dress accordingly.]
〒569-0077  大阪府高槻市野見町2-33
http://www.city.takatsuki.osaka.jp/bunka/theater/access/index.html

The Takatsuki Shimin Kaikan is located a short walk from Hankyu Takatsuki Station, 20 minutes by express train from either Hankyu Umeda or Shijyou Kawaramachi.
It takes 12 minutes to get there on foot from JR Takatsuki Station.

Scott North

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