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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(4):716-718; doi:10.1093/es/khi111
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Laura Hein. Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan. Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, Calif.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and University of California Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-520-24347-1, $45.00.

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Laura Hein begins this engaged and original study by noting the greater economic sophistication of Japanese than of Americans today—and one need only browse the extensive popular economics section of any Japanese bookstore or look at the use of economic charts and statistics in Japanese print and television news to see that this is so. To achieve national economic literacy was a major goal of the tight-knit cohort of progressive economists who are the subject of Hein’s book. Why then, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Mark Metzler

University of Texas at Austin


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