Built-in-Tradeoffs : Asiatic Ethics vs. Anglo-Saxon Rationality

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This is part of a study of economic ethics which intends to propound several major characteristics underlying the economic changes in Japan and Asian countries during the last half of the century. Within a framework of economic analysis, an emphasis is placed on contrasting traditional, but still prevalent, Asiatic ethics, behavioral pattern and values, with Anglo-Saxon efficiency and rationality in economic management. Recently the latter has been sometimes termed a main constituent of `global standards' by the major players in the world-wide financial market. But if the former is contradictory to the latter, where would Asian countries be located on the globe? Asia's New Giant¹ appeared in 1976. The book of a comprehensive survey of Japan's economy, politics, social and cultural factors, and related institutions may have symbolized the success story of a country which revived and rose back from devastated conditions thirty years before. The other countries stared in wonder or rather in consternation at Japan. And Asian countries, in particular, were encouraged by her performance, this time by her remarkable economic power and vitality not by her military power so abominable and unforgettable to them. Actually a prime minister declared sonorously `The Look East Policy', meaning a farewell to the conventional `Look West Policy' and learning Japan's achievements well-done both in economics and management.² Now Japan faces the most serious economic shrinkage: a terrible plight of deflation spiral. Was Asia's New Giant a foregone myth, illusion or disillusion? Where will the giant head for the next century? Will the giant follow the path of the fall and decay like the Roman Empire? Is this a mere convalescence?. Or, another, cycle of miracle? One of the key elements in the analysis is to examine how Japan and other Asian countries are going to adjust to the loosely defined `global standards', more specifically, Anglo-Saxon style of rationality and efficiency in capitalism, and at the same time how they are breaking away from their conventions. Makeshift fine-tuning pretending a seeming and temporary volte face would be a futile effort and a veneer of resistance.

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栗林訓
文教大学情報学部

Built-in-Tradeoffs : Asiatic Ethics vs. Anglo-Saxon Rationality

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