‘Introduction: Japan’s Secular Stagnation in the US Mirror’, Introduction to Japan’s Secular Stagnation, Special Issue of The Japanese Political Economy, co-edited with Makoto Itoh
Abstract
This introduction frames the contributions that follow in a reflection on how the Japanese experience has been assimilated in US debates on economic policy, on the larger historical significance of the current slowdown of all advanced economies and how it relates to Hansen’s original concerns about secular stagnation.
