Böcker av Shigeto Tsuru

The first authoritative study of Japan''s environmental problems by the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues within a socioeconomic context. In providing an historical account of environmental disruption in Japan, the author takes a number of key cases of industrial pollution in the pre-war and post-war periods and illustrates the effectiveness of taking into account socioeconomic affairs. Finally, he proposes a set of concrete countermeasures against environmental problems, applicable to all developed countries today, aimed at achieving a new ''quality of life''.First published in 2000, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

This book reappraises institutionalism as a school of thought and discusses its relevance for the issues which the economic profession must tackle today. Professor Tsuru reconsiders Marxian political economy as an 'institutionalist school' which provides a context for the discussion of Keynes, Schumpeter and Veblen.

Uniquely authoritative account of Japan's economic resconstruction after World War II.