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The Fingleton Invitation: Progress Report
People have asked me what happened to the Fingleton Invitation. The answer is nothing. Some months ago I invited Ed Lincoln, a former Tokyo-based economic adviser to the U.S. government, to join me for a public discussion of the Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged debate, edward j lincoln, japanese economy, lost decades
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An Open Letter to Professor Edward J. Lincoln
The letter below, to the Clinton administration’s chief Japan economist, is self-explanatory. Dear Ed: Having heard nothing from you over the summer despite several private attempts to make contact, I must now press publicly for an answer. As you know, … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Press
Tagged debate, ed lincoln, edward j lincoln, electricity output, imf, japan, lost decades, world bank
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An invitation, some surprising facts, and two elusive experts
For thirteen years now I have been trying to organize a public debate on what really happened to the Japanese economy. The effort continues. The facts below have convinced at least one top American economic thinker that a debate is … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Press, Trade
Tagged debate, edward j lincoln, japan, lost decades, robert alan feldman
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The truth of Japan’s “slump”: An invitation to a debate
For years I have held that Japan’s “slump” is a media myth. I have twice in the past extended an invitation to the principal proponents of the slump story to join me in a live one-on-one debate. I have had … Continue reading
Posted in Global economy, History, Japan, Press, Trade, Uncategorized
Tagged alexander kinmont, american decline, arthritic japan, bill emmott, can japan compete?, current account, debate, edward lincoln, gillian tett, japanese slump, kenneth courtis, lost decades, manufacturing, michael e porter, myth, paul krugman, peter tasker, richard katz, robert alan friedman
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A heated banker and a hurt professor
Now that the American economy has been revealed to everyone (not just to readers of my books) as a house of cards, I thought it might be safe to suggest that things in 1990s Japan weren’t all that bad. Two … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander kinmont, bill emmott, dan thomas, danforth thomas, dead fukuzawa society, debate, gillian tett, gregory clark, jesper koll, kenneth courtis, michael porter, minoru makihara, peter hartcher, peter tasker, richard katz, robert feldman, tiananmen massacre
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