JAP113 Japanese economics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Jan Sýkora, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Bc. Ondřej Šefčík, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Japanese Studies Centre – Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 16:40–19:55 B11
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 72 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/72, only registered: 0/72
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to explain the process of the quiet transition from the late feudal rice-based economic system towards the modern economic society in Japan. Students will familiarize with the objective preconditions for the formation of the economic society in Tokugawa period. The first part of the course is devoted to the analysis of the economic thought from the beginning of 17th century to the introduction of the western economic thought into Japan during the late 19th century. The second part of the course is focus on the development of economic thought in inter-war Japan, the reconstruction and development of economic system in the postwar period, the economic policy in 70s and the main causes of the economic crisis in the contemporary Japan.
Syllabus
  • 1. System preconditions for the formation and development of the economic society in Japan 2. Macroeconomic analysis of the Tokugawa economic system 3. The origin of the economic thought: Kumazawa Banzan 4. Development of the economic thought in the first part of the 18st century: Arai Hakusei, Ogyu Sorai, Dazai Shundai 5. Economic thought of Tokugawa merchants: Ishida Baigan and Sekimon shingaku, Kaitokudo merchant academy, Kaiho Seiryo and the origin of mercantilism in Japan 6. Development of the economic thought in the first part of the 19st century: Honda Toshiaki, Sato Nobuhiro, Yokoi Shonan 7. Introduction of the western economic thought to Japan 8. The economic thought in the inter-war Japan 9. Occupation of Japan and the reconstruction of the economic system 10. The economic theries in the period of “economic miracle” 11. Neoclassical theory and the criticism of the Japanese economic policy in 70s and 80s 12. Crisis of the contemporary economic system
Literature
  • Hajaši, Reiko (ed.), Nihon no kinsei, Dai 5 kan: Šónin no kacudó, Tokio, Čúó kóronša 1992
  • Nosco, Peter (ed.), Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture, Princeton, Princeton University Press 1984, zejména kapitola1.: Nosco, Peter. „Introduction: Neo-Confucianism and Tokugawa Discourse“ akapitola 6: Yamashita, Samuel Hideo. „Nature and Artifice
  • Micui, Takafusa, Zápisky o obchodnících, Praha, DharmaGaia 2005
  • Hirschmeier, Johannes; Yui, Tsunehiko, The Development of Japanese Business: 1600 – 1980, London, George Allen & Udwin 1981
  • Bellah, Robert N., Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan, New York, Free Press 1957, případně reprint z roku 1985 pod názvem Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan s přepracovaným autorovým úvodem
  • Nakai, Kate Wildman, Shogunal politics: Arai Hakuseki and the Premise of Tokugawa Rule, Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1988, zejména kapitola 5: „Fiscal Exigencies: Approaches to the Economic Foundations of Bakufu Rule“
  • Honjo, Eijiro, Economic Theory and History of Japan in the Tokugawa Period, New York, Russell and Russell 1965
  • Hanley, Susan B.; Yamamura, Kozo,
  • Heilbroner, Robert, The Making of Economic Society, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall 1993
  • Nosco, Peter (ed.), Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture, Princeton, Princeton University Press 1984,zejména kapitola1.: Nosco, Peter. „Introduction: Neo-Confucianism and Tokugawa Discourse“ a kapitola 6: Yamashita, Samuel Hideo. „Nature and Artifice
  • Baechler, Jean; Hall, John A.; Mann, Michael (eds.), Europe and the Rise of Capitalism, Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1988
  • Smith, Thomas C., The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan, Stanford, Stanford University Press 1959
  • Hajami,Akira; Mijamoto, Matao (ed.), Nihon keizaiši: Vol. 1. Keizašakai no naritači, 17 – 18 seiki Tokio, Iwanami šoten 1988
  • Wakita, Osamu, „The social and economic consequences of unification“, In: Hall, John Whitney (ed.), The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 4: Early Modern Japan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991
  • Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, A History of Japanese Economic Thought, London, Routledge1989
  • Kanai, Nobuhiko; McClain, James L., “Commercial change and urban growth in early modern Japan”, In: Hall, John Whitney (ed.). The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 4, Early Modern Japan,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991
  • Bolitho, Herold, „The han“, In: Hall, John Whitney (ed.), The Cambridge History of Japan. Volume 4: Early Modern Japan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991
  • Hanley, Susan B., „Tokugawa society: material culture, standard of living, and life-styles“, In: Hall, John Whitney (ed.). The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 4, Early Modern Japan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991
  • Hicks, John Richard, Theory of Economic History, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1969
  • Minamoto, Rjóen, Tokugawa šisó šóši, Tokio, Čúó kóronša 1973
  • Najita, Tetsuo, Vision of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudó Merchant Academy of Osaka, Chicago, University of Chicago Press 1987
  • Cameron, Rondo, Stručné ekonomické dějiny světa: Od doby kamenné do současnosti, Praha, Victoria Publishing 1996
  • Maruyama, Masao, Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, Princeton University Press 1974
  • Smith, Thomas C., The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan, Stanford, Stanford University Press 1959Sýkora, Jan,
  • Hajami,Akira; Mijamoto, Matao (ed.), Nihon keizaiši: Vol. 1. Keizašakai no naritači, 17 – 18 seiki Tokio,
  • Crawcour, E. Sydney.
Assessment methods
Written examination (test)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo japanistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučujícího.
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