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

1973年以来的当代世界大萧条的原因、具体特征和由此产生的影响，给我们提出了不少具有挑战性的问题。日本资本主义在这次世界大萧条中的活力也引起了全球经济学家的广泛关注。本研究计划用两年的时间对这些问题及相关问题进行调查。第一年，主要从世界资本主义经济的整体角度分析了全球经济大萧条的原因和特征。研究开始于对持续快速的资本积累和凯恩斯主义在二战后至20世纪60年代取得“成功”的有利基本条件的重新思考。然后，研究了资本过度积累对通货膨胀危机的历史特殊性和影响。进一步研究发现，在随后的持续萧条中，资本主义经济的重组是通过引入信息技术进行的，从而重新加强了市场机制的作用，作为新保守主义的经济基础。第二年，研究了日本资本主义在全球经济危机中的内部结构变化和外部地位。特别分析了日本的特殊情况，以及日本与其他资本主义国家所共有的结构调整的困难和倾向。日本也揭示了新保守主义的广泛经济基础，并对其进行了一定的批判研究。这项研究项目的结果将于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.