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Japan's Fiscal Crisis: The Ministry of Finance and the Politics of Public Spending, 1975-2000

Autor Maurice Wright
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 apr 2002
This controversial and authoritative account of budget-making and budgetary politics, the author traces the origins and development of Japan's present crisis. In a detailed analysis of the institutions, structures, and processes of central government, the author explains how decisions were made about how much to spend and on what in the central budget and the Fiscal and Investment Loan Programme - the so-called 'second budget'. Wright shows who and what won and lost and why, explains the informal policy and behavioral rules-of-the-game by which the conduct of the main players was regulated, and compares Japan's fiscal performance with the UK and other G7 countries.It challenges the orthodoxy that a dominant and dominating Ministry of Finance (MOF) implemented tough policies of retrenchment in the 1980s. The appearance of fiscal discipline was not matched by the reality of too much spending, too few revenues, and heavy borrowing. MOF not only failed to restore a balanced budget, it was unable to achieve most of its short and long-term fiscal objectives during the last quarter of the 20th Century. Unravelling the complexity and opacity of the budgetary system, the author shows how MOF officials exploited it to foster an illusion of control. Through adroit manipulation of off-budget sources, and by fiscal sleight-of-hand, MOF was able to deliver an expanding supply of budget benefits to the ruling Liberal Democratic party, and the means to finance the growth and maintenance of a 'Public Works State'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199250530
ISBN-10: 0199250537
Pagini: 648
Ilustrații: numerous tables and figures
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 33 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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... represents a major advance both in understanding of Japan's postwar economic history and in the potential for comparative analysis of the rise and (apparent?) fall of one of the world's most significant economic institutions.
... an institutional portrait of immense depth and detail, based on unrivalled access to Japanese sources.
... much more than just a history of the MOF's inability to find a way to solve the fiscal crisis.