Public Policy and Economic Competition or Report Writing for Business

Public Policy and Economic Competition: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995

Author: Michael L Beeman

Viewed historically as the lapdog of business, bureaucratic and political interests, Japan's Fair Trade Commission has had mixed success in promoting its agenda for stronger antimonopoly policy since the early 1970s. Dr Beeman unravels antimonopoly politics in Japan through an analysis of the diverse interests of industry, government, and other parties to reveal how and why antimonopoly policy has made important inroads yet ultimately failed to gain deep acceptance in Japan.
Employing extensive use of primary research materials and numerous interviews of key participants from government and industry, Dr Beeman finds predictable patterns of change and continuity in antimonopoly policy from the perspective of legal scholars or from the narrow context of Japan's key industrial sectors. The book provides a unique insight into an agency and a policy that has often been criticized within Japan as too stringent and from outside Japan as too lax.

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Series editor's preface
	Preface
	Notes on Japanese usage
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	The historical context	13
3	The Fair Trade Commission	26
4	Remodeling the cartel archipelago	40
5	Policy in the political arena: revision of the Antimonopoly Law	69
6	The problem of structurally depressed industries	96
7	Solidifying and expanding the policy base	113
8	Gaiatsu as a source of policy change	137
9	The response to collusion in the construction industry	158
10	Conclusion: Japanese antimonopoly politics	172
	Notes	178
	Index	213

See also: Contabilidad Avanzada

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