Comparing post-war Japanese and Finnish economies and societies : longitudinal perspectives

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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Contributors
PART I Introduction
	1 Comparing Japanese and Finnish economies and societies: longitudinal perspectives
	2 Longitudinal comparative historical analysis: challenges and possibilities
PART II Welfare societies
	3 Two paths to building a welfare society: the development of work- and family-related policies in post-war Finland and Japan
	4 Higher education systems and labour market outcomes in Japan and Finland, 1950–2010
	5 Military spending in Japan and Finland: from warfare to welfare state
PART III Macroeconomic policies
	6 Macroeconomic thinking and policymaking in post-war Japan and Finland: the role of Keynesian macroeconomics
	7 Energy supply and regulation
	8 The financial crisis of the 1990s in Finland and Japan
PART IV Trade and industry
	9 Finnish–Japanese trade relations from protectionism to free trade, 1919–2010
	10 Growth of an industry: a comparison of paper industry in Japan and Finland
PART V Concluding remarks
	11 Concluding thoughts on the Finnish–Japanese comparison
Bibliography
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