The fable of the keiretsu : urban legends of the Japanese economy
The fable of the keiretsu : urban legends of the Japanese economy
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经连的寓言：日本经济的都市传奇
DOI：
10.7208/chicago/9780226532721.001.0001
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发表时间：
2006
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J. Ramseyer
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作者：
Y. Miwa;J. Ramseyer
对于西方经济学家和记者来说，战后日本商业世界最具特色的方面是经连会，即强大公司之间的孤立商业联盟。这些观察家认为，在经连会集团内部，企业优先进行贸易、贷款、接受技术和金融援助，并通过交叉持股协议巩固彼此的联系。在《经连会的寓言》中，三和芳郎和J·马克·拉姆齐耶证明了所有这些言论实际上只是都市传说。在他们富有洞察力的分析中，作者表明，经连会的思想是由战后日本的马克思主义学者创造和传播的。西方学者仅仅是为了说明现代经济分析的文化偶然性而将这一传说还原。两位作者不仅驳斥了经连会的概念，还揭露了几个相关的“事实”：日本企业与“主银行”保持着特殊安排，企业的系统性管理不善，日本政府引导了战后的增长。在推翻这些长期存在的假设时，他们提供了日本商业现实的少数可靠编年史之一。
For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In "The Fable of the Keiretsu", Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend. In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the keiretsu was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of keiretsu, the authors debunk several related "facts" as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a "main bank," that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business.