With a new look at the 1880s Financial reforms in Japan, Steven J.
As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-Stabilization program--a sort of precursor of the "neoliberal" reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s--Matsukata\'s policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and n.
Ericson\'s Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi.
With a new look at the 1880s Financial reforms in Japan, Steven J