Not Lost In Translation: How Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan’s Industrial Revoluton

Japan’s growth miracle after World War II is well known but that was Japan’s second miracle. The first was perhaps even more miraculous. At the end of the 19th century, under the Meiji Restoration, Japan transformed itself almost overnight from a peasant economy to an industrial powerhouse. After centuries of resisting economic and social change, […] The post Not Lost In Translation: How Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan’s Industrial Revoluton appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.