Books by Chalmers Johnson

Focuses on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy.

This revised edition not only brings the original analysis up to date but adds two new chapters: one on terrorism, the most celebrated form of political violence throughout the 1970s, and one on theories of revolution from Brinton to the present day.

Japan is the richest economy in terms of per capita income, and its unemployment rate is a fraction of that in Europe. This study examines the reasons for this success, explaining that they lie, according to the author, in Japan's remarkable "capitalist development state".