tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post175607499675472201..comments2024-03-17T00:23:24.896-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: Japanese Real GDP Growth, 1925–2001Lord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-87076427153742414112015-03-25T08:15:53.032-07:002015-03-25T08:15:53.032-07:00The Japanese (and indeed the entire Tokyo Consensu...The Japanese (and indeed the entire Tokyo Consensus group of economies) are using a superior understanding of macroeconomics - known as Shimomuran-Wernerian macroeconomics after the two master economists who have explained it - to gain an immense trading and commercial advantage For further information see Professor Richard Werner's lecture at <br /><br />http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/lessons-we-can-learn-from-the-success-of-the-japanese-growth-system and my lecture at <br /><br />http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-curious-case-of-the-economist-the-west-forgot-the-life-and-times-of-dr-osamu and the "Rough Guide to Shimomuran(-Wernerian) Economics at <br /><br />https://medium.com/@georgetaitedwards/the-rough-guide-to-shimomuran-economics-e9dca42c6808<br /> Gteconomisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824502822859966827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-62975917203720386552013-02-17T10:56:07.426-08:002013-02-17T10:56:07.426-08:00Although I do not claim to know the definite answe...Although I do not claim to know the definite answer, I know that many studied economics in Germany, where they discovered Marxism. But they didn't advocate a strict form, adapting it with characteristics akin to the National Socialists (Nazi's) by wanting territorial expansion to create their version of lebensraum and being essentially racist (evident in their treatment of Koreans and Chinese). Additionally, I also assume the "Great Depression" of the 1930's led Marxism to become popular.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222797067493718720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-39674813281423414842013-01-22T15:33:28.177-08:002013-01-22T15:33:28.177-08:00Tangential question: does anybody know why it was ...Tangential question: does anybody know why it was that Marxian economics was so unusually predominant in Japanese economics departments? I have never read anything that cleared it up. Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14943136764424893492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-1704721539555876122013-01-22T14:21:11.533-08:002013-01-22T14:21:11.533-08:00[...] Lord Keynes, at Social Democracy for the 21s...[...] Lord Keynes, at Social Democracy for the 21st Century, provides data on Japanese Real GDP Growth from 1925–2001 and notes the following [...]Bubbles and Busts: Myth Busting Japan's Lost Decadehttp://bubblesandbusts.blogspot.com/2013/01/myth-busting-japans-lost-decade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com