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"Turn of the Tide?" Dr. Ronald Dore's lecture at Sophia University
| Location: | Japan |
| Lecture Date: | 2009-04-14 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-03-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
167631 |
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Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Time: From 5:30 pm
Place: Sophia University Yotsuya Library Bldng. Room L-911
Open to public
Abstract: The Nakatani Apostasy and the call by the LDP House of Councilors Leader for the abolition of the Shimon Kaigi and the Deregulation Commission are signs of a widespread rethink of the neo-liberal small-government reformist ideology which has gradually been consolidating its dominance in the Japanese body politic for the last quarter century and reached its peak in the Koizumi administration. But how far might the pendulum swing back? How far was the "age of reform" a function not just of external influence but also of irreversible changes in class structure and their reflection in electoral mechanisms, and what does this imply for a possible swing-back?
About the lecturer: Dr. Ronald Dore is an Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London. He learned Japanese during the war and has spent most of his life studying Japanese society and economy. Much of his writing has been concerned with what comparison with Japan can tell one about third world development, and about the problems of education, industrial relations and corporate governance in the OECD countries. He has a degree in Japanese from London University (1947), has taught at London, University of British Columbia, Harvard and MIT in departments of sociology, history and political science, and has had research positions at the Institute of Development Studies and the Technical Change Centre. He is a member of the British Academy and honorary foreign member of the Japanese and American Academies. His first book, City Life in Japan (1958) was recently reprinted with a new preface (Curzon Press 1999) and his latest in English is Stock Market Capitalism, Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons, which was published by Oxford University Press in May 2000, and since translated into Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish. Recently, two collections of his writings have been published, Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture: What it means to take Japan seriously (Edward Elgar, 2001) and Collected Writings of Ronald Dore (Routledge-Curzon 2002). He has also written two recent books in Japanese: 働くということ (中公新書2006) and 会社は誰のものにするか (岩波新書 2007)
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