This book contends that structural reforms, the essential third arrow in Abe's 'Abenomics', will not happen. As a result, Abenomics is merely a combination of reckless monetary policy and ambiguous fiscal policies which will fail to regenerate Japan's fragile economy and cut sovereign debt.

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Susan Carpenter is Managing Director of International Markets Analysts Limited. She has worked for Japanese business and government organizations, and has also served as the Director of the MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK. Her previous publications include Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Why Japan Can't Reform: Inside the System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Japan's Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

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Book Title: Japan Inc. on the Brink
Book Subtitle: Institutional Corruption and Agency Failure
Authors: Susan Carpenter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469441
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46943-4Published: 27 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50051-2Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46944-1Published: 27 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 316
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, International Business, Management, Economic History, International Economics, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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