Planning for Change - Vestal, James E. (Chief Economist, Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW) Securities, Tokyo a Visiting Lecturer, Chief Economist, Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW) Securities, Tokyo a Visiting Lecturer, Keio University)

This study evaluates the role that government industrial policy, through agencies such as MITI, has played in Japan's extraordinary post-war development. It shows that a stable, gradual and long-term perspective was the key to Japan's development.