All posts by Luciano Carment

Does the Kishida cabinet mean the death of neoliberalism in Japan?

Luciano Carment | April 19, 2022

The ascendency of Prime minister Kishida and his new focus on economic inequality has many wondering whether Japan has reached the final death knell of ‘economic reform’ – a euphemism for the kind of neoliberal policies that may be able to make a dent in the government’s enormous debt. [...]

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Quantitative Easing and Corporate Surplus Hoarding in Contemporary Japan

Luciano Carment | May 24, 2018

In 2012, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), launched one of the largest monetary policy experiments in the history of the 21st century. Whilst in the years since the GFC, many countries have engaged in the kind of bond buy-back programs now referred to as quantitative easing (QE), Japan’s is [...]

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