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Subject(s)

• Working class—Japan—Economic conditions—History [Browse]
• Working class writings, Japanese [Browse]
• Japan—Economic conditions—To 1868 [Browse]
• Japan—Economic conditions—1868-1918 [Browse]
• Japan—Economic conditions—1945- [Browse]

Series

• Twentieth-century Japan ; 18. [More in this series]
• Twentieth-century Japan ; 18 [More in this series]

Summary note

The author explores a powerful theme in the economic thought and practice of ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and early modern Japan. He examines commoners' writings on the virtues of commerce, on the reconstruction of villages, and on groups offering credit and loans, particularly the traditional cooperative, the kō, which citizens created to save on another in times of famine and fiscal emergency without having to turn to their government. The author's discussion centers on the relationship among economics, ethics, and the epistemological premise that nature must serve as the first principle of all knowledge, and he illuminates comparative issues of poverty, capitalism, and modernity.--(Source of description unspecified.)

Notes

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim. p.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and index.

Contents

• Other visions of virtue
• Commonsense knowledge
• The Kō as organizational consciousness
• Work as ethical practice
• Hōtoku and modernizing the nation
• The Mujin Company
• Epilogue: A fragmented discourse.

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ISBN

• 9780520260382 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0520260384 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2008050468

OCLC

277466084

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