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Sandcastle Empire

Eamonn Fingleton's commentaries on the politics and economics of American decline

 
 
  • About Eamonn Fingleton
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Tag Archives: gregory clark

A heated banker and a hurt professor

Sandcastle Empire Posted on November 3, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 19, 2010

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 →

Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Press, Trade | 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

The Clark-Fingleton discussion

Sandcastle Empire Posted on September 21, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 19, 2010

Below, set out in chronological order, is a series of three exchanges between  Professor Gregory Clark and me concerning, among other things, the problems for foreign correspondents in reporting the truth from Japan. Clark, a Japan-based educator and columnist for … Continue reading →

Posted in American decline, Global economy, History, Japan, Press, Sino-Japanese relations | Tagged catherine makino, chatham house, courtis, feldman, gillian tett, gregory clark, hallett abend, jesper koll, kinmont, koki hirota, malcolm kennedy, peter o'connor, Sino-Japanese relations, taid o'conroy, takeo tamiya, tasker, vidkun quisling

Recent Posts

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Categories

  • American decline
  • Book reviews
  • China
  • Global economy
  • Great East Japan Earthquake
  • History
  • International Trade
  • Japan
  • Manufacturing
  • Press
  • Service economy
  • Sino-Japanese relations
  • Trade
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