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Book SynopsisThe revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long recession and how it affected current theoretical thinking about its causes and cures.
Trade ReviewReviews from the previous edition "...provide fascinating insights into the problems of Japan...interesting thesis" (Wilmott.com/blogs, August 2009)
"…the Japanese policymakers who told everyone the US was in danger of falling into a prolonged period of economic weakness were right. To understand why this is true, you need to read a brilliant book by Richard Koo of the Nomura Research Institute." (Financial Times, January 2009)
"…the definitive book on Japan's decade-long recession in the 1990s." (USA Today, March 2009)
"Books about the current global economic crisis are being written and published by the truckload. But few – perhaps none – are worth reading… Richard Koo, chief economist at the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, a think tank attached to Japan's biggest investment bank, watched Japan's 'lost decade' from an excellent vantage point: he was close enough to understand the detail, data and ways in which both corporate and political decisions were made, and independent enough to be able to analyse what happened in a reasonably detached and cool way." (Survival, May 2009)
"A must-read to an understanding of what Japan went through and what the United States and Europe may experience is Koo's latest book The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession." (The Edge Financial Daily, December 2008)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Japan’s Recession 1
Chapter 2 Characteristics of Balance Sheet Recessions 39
Chapter 3 The Great Depression was a Balance Sheet Recession 85
Chapter 4 Monetary, Foreign Exchange, and Fiscal Policy During a Balance Sheet Recession 125
Chapter 5 Yin and Yang Economic Cycles and the Holy Grail of Macroeconomics 157
Chapter 6 Pressure of Globalization 185
Chapter 7 Ongoing Bubbles and Balance Sheet Recessions 221
Chapter 8 World in Balance Sheet Recession 253
Appendix: Thoughts on Walras and Macroeconomics 295
References and Bibliography 309
Index 321
