Water and Wood
Infrastructure, Technology, and Geography
A Layered Infrastructure
Infrastructure-Driven Growth and the Long Swing
Geographic Concentration
The Giants Compared
The Approach
Innovation Waves, Kondratieff Waves, and Long Swings
Sources of Growth Accounting and the Residual Factor
Economic Evolution and Endogenous Growth
Under Bakufu Rule
Extensive Economic Growth
Intensive Economic Growth
Regional Competitive Advantage
Tokugawa Infrastructure in Decline and Crisis
Manchester of the Far East
The Balanced-Growth Long Swing
From Wards to City
Agriculture in Balanced Growth
Physical Infrastructure
Transportation
Financial Infrastructure: Merchants, Entrepreneurs, and the Zaibatsu
Factories and Mechanization
Osaka Triumphant
Electricity and Steel
The Transitional-Growth and Unbalanced-Growth Long Swings
The Logic of Internal Development and the Impact of Global Economic and Geopolitical Change
Physical Infrastructure and Industrialization in the Transitional-Growth Long Swing
The Unbalanced-Growth Long Swing
Infrastructure
Electricity and Railroads
Lags and the Pressure of Industrial Expansion on Infrastructure
Land Prices and Speculation
Trucks, Buses, and Roads
The Geographic Pull Toward Tokyo
Factories
The Product Cycle
The Proto-Industrialization of Manufacturing and the Industrialization of Proto-Industry
Education and the New Technological Imperative
The Evolution of Banking and the Zaibatsu.