This course is designed to introduce students to the operation and management of the Japanese economy and its impact on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Stress will be given to the analytic and policy interest in the operation and management of an economic system built on different social and institutional foundations from that of our own and the interaction between the Japanese economy and other economies, particularly the Australian economy.

By completing this course successfully, students will:

• have a good understanding of the way the Japanese economy operates;
• apply economic analysis to current issues facing Japan;
• know about contemporary public policy choices in Japan;
• understand current issues in the Australia-Japan relationship.

Assignments are prescribed as well as an examination at the end of the semester.

Three contact hours per week throughout the semester.

Completion of or concurrent enrolment in ECON2101/2111 Microeconomics 2 (P or H).

with ASIA2023 Japanese Economic Development Since World War II

Drysdale, P. and Gower, L. (eds), Japanese Economy and Economic Policy, vols I-VIII, Routledge, 1998
Flath, D., The Japanese Economy, Oxford University Press, 2000
Drysdale, P., International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, Allen&Unwin or Columbia UP, 1988
Garnaut, R. and Drysdale, P. (eds), Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Economic Relations, Harper, Educational in association with Australia-Japan Research Centre, 1994

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