Books by Gavan McCormack

This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the "successful version of capitalism" was "blighted at it's core, being unsustainable". This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis.

Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel's influential formulation a deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility, hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan's desperate drive for hyperdevelopment.