The Contemporary World Depression and Japanese Capitalism -In Relation to the Basic Theory of capitalism-

1973年以来当代世界大萧条的原因、具体特征和结果给我们提出了不少具有挑战性的问题。日本资本主义在这场世界大萧条中的活力也引起了全球经济学家的极大关注。这项研究计划在两年的计划中对这些问题和相关问题进行调查。第一年，主要从世界资本主义经济的整体角度分析了全球大萧条的原因和特征。本文首先重新审视了二战后至1960年S时期资本持续快速积累和凯恩斯主义“成功”的有利基础条件，进而研究了资本过度积累引发通货膨胀危机的历史特殊性和影响。第二年，考察了日本资本主义在全球经济危机中不断变化的内部结构和外部地位。特别是分析了日本的特殊情况以及与其他资本主义国家一样的经济转型的困难和趋势。在这项研究中，日本也揭示了新保守主义的广泛经济基础，并以一定的清晰度进行了研究。这项研究的结果将于1989年以英文书的形式出版。

The causes, specific features, and the resultant effects of the contemporary world depression since 1973 present us not a few challenging issues. The dynamism of Japanese capitalism through this world great depression is also gathering much of worldwide economists' concern. This research projected investigation of these issues and related problems in a 2 years plan.In the first year, the causes and features of the global great depression were analysed mainly concerning the world capitalist economy as a whole. The research began with reconsideration of the favourable basic conditions for the continuous rapid capital accumulation and the 'success' of Keynesianism in the post World War II period until 1960's. Then, the historical specificities and the impacts of the overaccumulation of capital to cause the inflationary crisis were studied. It was further examined that the restructuring of the capitalist economy in the following continuous depression proceeded by introducing information technologies and thus reintensifying the working of market mechanism as an economic ground for neo-conservativism.In the second year, the changing internal structures and the external position of Japanese capitalism in the global economic crisis were investigated. Especially, Japanese exceptional situations as well as her difficulties and tendencies of resturucturing common with other capitalist countries were analysed. The broad economic basis for neo-conservativism was revealed also in Japan and studied with certain crisicisms in this research.The results of this research project are going to be published in an English book form in 1989.