Reviews for Origins of economic thought in modern Japan

The average rating for Origins of economic thought in modern Japan based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-18 00:00:00 Paul Hatchette According to Bossenga, the French crown placed conflicting demands on the city of Lille in the years leading to the Revolution. On the one hand, the monarchy was a modernizing force; it wanted a relatively free national market and a rational system of taxation. The local privileges of the city of Lille and the various rights of its guilds and nobles came to be seen as a damper on national prosperity. On the other hand, the crown still relied on privileged corporations (such as the noble courts) to raise the funds it desperately needed. In other words, the crown could not simply impose its plans for modernization; it had to negotiate. In Lille, therefore, all concerned parties learned to justify their particular privileges using the language of equality and patriotism. Even the nobility of Lille tried to maintain their standing and privileges by claiming to be useful to the nation. At the same time, however, the bourgeoisie continued to negotiate within the overall framework of the mercantilist, corporatist state; even during the Revolution, they argued less on the basis of 19th-century liberal ideology or capitalist interests than on the basis of their own forms of privilege. According to Bossenga, then, the revolutionary ideals of equality and liberty arose within the Old Regime's own institutions, while many of the people we see as natural revolutionaries remained wedded to the old socioeconomic order. The French Revolution, at least in Lille, was thus a less radical change than we -- or rather, the (Marxist) traditionalist historians -- often think.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-11-11 00:00:00 Oliver Holtmeier feminist approach to modernism, not exactly what I was hoping to find.