Ericson, Steven J., 1953-

Financial stabilization in Meiji Japan : the impact of the Matsukata reform / Steven J. Ericson. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 198 pages). - Cornell studies in money .

Includes bibliographies and index.

From Ōkuma finance to Matsukata finance, 1873-1881 -- Orthodox finance and the dictates of practical expediency : influences on Matsukata -- Austerity and expansion : the Matsukata reform, 1881-1885 -- Spending in a time of retrenchment : industrial policy and the military -- Founding a central bank -- Poor peasant, poor country? : the Matsukata deflation.

"Discusses how Japan's finance minister Matsukata Masayoshi carried out his program of financial stabilization in the early to mid-1880s by pursuing policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one"--



9781501746925 9781501746932

2019018064


Matsukata, Masayoshi, 1835-1924.


Finance, Public--History--Japan--19th century.
Economic stabilization--History--Japan--19th century.


Electronic Books.

HJ1393 / .F563 2019