JAPAN REMODELED: HOW GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY ARE REFORMING JAPANESE CAPITALISM

Book ID/图书代码： 03360006B05894

English Summary/英文概要： As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan’s past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry ties, "lifetime" employment, the main bank system, and dense interfirm networks. Many of these leaders turned to the U.S. model for lessons, urging the government to liberate the economy and companies to sever long-term ties with workers, banks, suppliers, and other firms. Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact enacted substantial reforms. Yet Japan never emulated the American model. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why they were enacted.
Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 20世纪90年代，随着日本经济的衰退，日本的政府高层、大企业家及舆论领袖一致得出结论：日本当时所采用的经济模式完全走错了方向。他们向曾被认为是早就了日本“曾经的辉煌”的机构发出询问，这一强大的政府部门曾领导经济发展、斩断政企链和终身聘用制、主要银行系统，并不断强化公司间内网。其中许多领导者转而从美国的发展模式中寻求思路，敦促政府尽快解放经济与企业，使得其能够与工人、银行、提供商及其他公司建立更为长久的联系关系。尽管当时盛行着许多与之相斥的流行理念，然而日本政府和企业还是实际实施了大量的改革。虽然最终也还是没有真正遵循美国发展模式。当政府要员和行业领军人审视他们所能做出的选择时，他们还是选择了通过改革的方式去调整或强化此前已现有的机构模式，而非直接将之抛弃。在《重建后的日本》一书中，史蒂文•沃格尔将为我们解释这些改革的本质及其所进行的延伸，以及为何实施了这一系列改革。

沃格尔向读者们展示了政府和企业想出创新式解决方案的过程。他认为，正是一个个小调整的累积最终使得一个新兴的日本国诞生，并设计出了变化巨大的新经济模型，其特点是：在商业伙伴的合作商更具选择性，行业间和公司间的层次区别划分更明确，更多样化，而对于海外参与者则抱有一种更开放的接纳态度。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况："自2002年起，日本经济便开始进入平稳的大复苏期。《重建后的日本》的作者史蒂文•K•沃格尔是加利福尼亚大学，伯克利学院的一名政治学教授，通过对执行采访、公司案例研究及与国外对比进行政治学测试，来超越所谓的专家的权威观点。本书堪称是对日本独特市场经济分析得对彻底详尽的一部英国著作。"—《纽约时报》 2007年1月7日 "沃格尔的这部书籍对世界有着至关重要的巨大贡献，相信即便时隔多年，人们读来已然会对之肃然起敬。他所采用的方法仔细、精确、折中得恰到好处，既有值得怀疑的地方，也极具可读性。我相信作者成功地为我们解答了，为何经济改革没有引发日式资本主义和美式资本主义的聚合（使得20世纪90年代末流行于华尔街投资者们之间的一种论断不攻自破）。此外，作者还提供了有关于许多改革后不确定影响力的极具说服力的论据"—爱德华•J•林肯，33:2 (2007),《日本研究刊》

"《重建后的日本》是一本至关重要的书籍作品。长达15年的经济萎靡极大的加速了目前经济体系的大变革。对于日本公共政策改革和企业重组的进程和模式，史蒂夫•沃格尔进行了深刻，细致，同时谨慎的分析。他以一种强有力的方式对日本的资本主义现状展开论证，他认为日本当前的资本主义正进行着部分重塑，并正朝向自由市场体系的方向发展，但其中也不乏独特的机构设置及价值坚持之处。 "—修•帕特里克，哥伦比亚大学

"《重建后的日本》对日本的资本主义展开了一场极为宽泛的讨论，其中涉及了许多在某种程度上整体掌控者日本经济命脉的行业和公司。全书娓娓解释了为何重建后的变化并没有原本预测的那么巨大，其简单的原因便是：日本本身并不想要进行过大的改变。史蒂文•沃格尔聪明地讲述了这一过程，对于发生了的变化，他既没有夸大，也没有弱化；对于日本的政治状况，他的描述既尊重事实，同时态度也十分诚恳。"—马克•提尔顿，普渡大学

"Since early 2002, Japan has been on a steady economic rebound. Japan Remodeled by Steven K. Vogel, political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, gets beyond the punditry by presenting a social-science understanding tested against executive interviews, company case studies and foreign comparisons. It is. . . the best analysis in English of Japan’s distinctive market economy."—New York Times, 7 January 2007

"Vogel’s book is a very important contribution that should stand up well for a number of years. His approach is careful, nuanced, appropriately eclectic, somewhat skeptical, and very readable. I believe he successfully explains why economic reform is not causing a convergence between the Japanese version of capitalism and that of the United States (puncturing a belief that was popular among Wall Street investors in the late 1990s). He also provides convincing arguments about the uncertain impact of much of the reform effort."—Edward J. Lincoln, 33:2 (2007), Journal of Japanese Studies

"Japan Remodeled is an important book. Japan’s economic system is undergoing major transformation exacerbated by 15 years of malaise. Steven Vogel provides a sophisticated, careful, rather cautionary analysis of Japan’s processes and patterns of public policy reform and corporate restructuring. He cogently argues Japan’s capitalism is being reshaped partially toward a liberal market system, but with distinctive institutions and values persisting."—Hugh Patrick, Columbia University

"Japan Remodeled provides a very broad discussion of Japanese capitalism, covering a number of industries and firms in a way that masterfully surveys the Japanese economy as a whole. It provides an elegant explanation for why things haven’t changed more than they have, which is simply that the Japanese don’t want more change. Steven Vogel brilliantly gets the story right, neither exaggerating nor minimizing the changes that have occurred; he is both commonsensical and honest about Japanese politics."—Mark Tilton, Purdue University

About the Author/作者介绍： 史蒂文•沃格尔是加利福尼亚大学伯克利学院一名政治学副教授。他著有《越自由，越束缚：工业发达国家的常规性改革》，此外他还担任《改变世界》杂志美日关系专栏的编辑。

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