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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

21. What Can We Learn from Japanese Culture?

Author : Robert Pringle

Published in: The Power of Money

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Society should set the direction of travel: what we want money, as a social institution, to be for. We can learn by studying cultures that have, in the past, enabled people to keep money in a given place; I discuss the example of Japan.

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Footnotes
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The book was banned by General MacArthur during the American occupation and is rarely cited by the Western scholars but has been republished in Japan in translation.
 
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Metadata
Title
What Can We Learn from Japanese Culture?
Author
Robert Pringle
Copyright Year
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25894-8_21