Culture and economic explanation : economics in the US and Japan - Katzner, Donald W. , 1938- (Abingdon [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008)
1. Introduction: culture, economics and economic behavior -- 2. Western economics and the economy of Japan -- 3. "What are the questions"? -- 4. An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy -- 5. The workings of the Japanese economy -- 6. Explaining the Japanese economic miracle -- 7. The role of optimization in economics -- 8. Economics and the principle of uniformity -- 9. Cultural variation and the theory of the firm -- 10. Culture and the explanation of choice behaviour
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Economics -- Japan; Economics -- United States