An interview with Miyohei Shinohara: Nonconformism in Japanese economic thought

Miyohei Shinohara is regarded in Japan as a highly accomplished but unconve ntional economist, with views on most subjects at odds with those of other major economists. Shinohara talks freely on his early formative influences; on Friedman, Kuznets, and Machlup: on the effect of his early work on Japa n's industrial policy; on long-term economic statistics on Japan's bubbles and recessions; on business cycles and crises; and on world hegemony, a mul tiple key currency and Asia's growth. Shinohara's stature as an original ac ademic thinker and influential advisor to the government, someone who start ed his career before the war and participated in most major postwar economi c changes, makes this interview particularly informative to later generatio ns. (C) 2001 Academic Press.