Freedman, Craig and Nottage, Luke (2006) The Chicago School of Economics and (Japanese) Law : resisting the invasions by Stigler and Ramseyer
In Adrian Vickers and Margaret Hanlon (eds.) Asia reconstructed : proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA. (26 - 29 June 2006 : Wollongong, Australia)
Access to the published version:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2006/FreedmanC.+Nottage-L-ASAA2006.pdf
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III. Proving the Non-existence of Japan – Ramseyer as a Professional Infant Terrible
“Most of what we collectively think we know about the Japanese economy is urban legend. ....
It is in this context that the work of a latter-day Chicagoan starts to make sense. Mark Ramseyer, at first glance, seems to be at best cantankerous and at worse perverse. He takes the most commonly held conclusions about the Japanese economy and denies all of them categorically. ... .
Ramseyer’s approach is essentially that ‘Everything you know about the Japanese economy is wrong, and you are foolish to continue believing otherwise’. This is certainly one way to get noticed – especially in the US academic world ....
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