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Economic Growth in Modern Asia and the British Empire

Shigeru Akita

Introduction: Viewpoints and Methods in the Economic History of Japan

Akira Hayami

Introduction: What’s a Money Doctor?

Andrés Álvarez, Vincent Bignon, Anders Ögren and Masato Shizume

Takahashi Korekiyo, the Man Who Brought Japan Out of the Great Depression

Masato Shizume

Introduction

Donatella Strangio

Introduction: The Development of International Banking in Asia

Ayumu Sugawara and Takeshi Nishimura

Introduction

Kazuo Wada

Introduction

Hao Peng

Central Asia (CA) and the Silk Road (SR): Definitions and Traits

Stephan Barisitz

Introduction

Chikayoshi Nomura

Introduction

Yuriko Kikuchi

Reflections on the Evolution of Financial Crises: Theory, History and Empirics

Michael D. Bordo

Introduction: The History of Myanmar’s Political and Economic System, and the Structure of This Book

Akio Takahashi

Editorial Introduction: Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions and Development

Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Campbell and Debin Ma

Introduction: Economic Performance and Background of the Mao Era

Katsuji Nakagane

Cliometrics of the Family: Editors’ Introduction

Claude Diebolt, Auke Rijpma, Sarah Carmichael, Selin Dilli and Charlotte Störmer

Introduction

Minoru Sawai

The History of Business in Africa: Introduction

Grietjie Verhoef

Introduction: Silks, a Global Perspective

Pierre Vernus, Manuela Martini and Tomoko Hashino

Personal Small Savings and Japan’s Economic Development

Hikaru Tanaka

Introduction

Wayne Geerling and Gary Magee

Environment and Geography

Myung Soo Cha, Junseok Hwang and Heejin Park

Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899–1929

Louis P. Cain and Elyce J. Rotella

The Culture and Institutions of Japan

Juro Teranishi

Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Pre-history of the IMF: Debates in the UK and Anglo-American Negotiation

Masanao Itoh

A Perspective on the History of Economic Growth

Nak Nyeon Kim

Asymmetry of Information, Trust-Building and Market Quality: Governing the Quality of Goods in Modern Asia

Kazuko Furuta and Toshiaki Ushijima

Beyond Marshallian Agglomeration Economies

Tomoko Hashino and Keijiro Otsuka

Acceptance of the Ford Production System by Japanese Manufacturing Industries

Kazuo Wada

Africa and Africas

Grietjie Verhoef

Railway Engineers of the Japanese Empire and the Significance of Collaborative R&D Activities

Minoru Sawai

A Cliometric Model of Unified Growth: Family Organization and Economic Growth in the Long Run of History

Claude Diebolt and Faustine Perrin

Japan’s Plunge into and Emergence from the Great Depression

Masato Shizume

China: Politics, History and Economy

Donatella Strangio

The Transatlantic World and East India (the Long Eighteenth Century)

Shigeru Akita

Toward a New Paradigm of the Long-Term Development of Industrial Districts

Tetsushi Sonobe, Keijiro Otsuka and Tomoko Hashino

Commercial Intermediaries in the Nagasaki Trade

Hao Peng

From the Beginnings to the Emergence of the Silk Road (SR)

Stephan Barisitz

The Golden Age of Valencian Silk? Rise, Crisis and Productive Reconversion of the Valencian Silk Industry (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)

Ricardo Franch Benavent and Daniel Muñoz Navarro

Before the Emergence of Economic Society

Akira Hayami

What Supported the Development of Traditional Rural Economies? The Forgotten Financial Infrastructure

Hikaru Tanaka

The International Contagion of Short-Run Interest Rates During the Great Depression

Samuel Maveyraud and Antoine Parent

Agricultural and Rural Policies Amid Regime Changes

Akio Takahashi

War and Demand for Technology: How Unification Disincentivized Innovations in Historical China

Zhiwu Chen, Senhao Hu and Zhan Lin

The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension Among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation

Garrett T. Senney and Richard H. Steckel

China and the Great Divergence

Donatella Strangio

Is Oda Nobunaga the Last Champion of the Medieval Era or a Pioneer of the Early Modern Era? A Money Doctor in 16th Century Japan

Hisashi Takagi

Market Approaches to Dealing with Cotton Adulteration in Early Twentieth-Century China

Masataka Setobayashi

Macroeconomy and Sources of Growth

Nak Nyeon Kim