> Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism
> Robert Locke
Locke gets some things right, though he doesn't have a clue about what socialism is, and trots out the usual Soviet-bashing metaphors (never mind that the Soviet Union turned a war-ravaged collection of Fourth World economies into a superpower). Emphasizing the non-market elements of the Japanese economy is fine, but lines like this make me wonder:
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Give him a holler for some real-time peer review:
LOCKE, ROBERT x-7150 blocke at hawaii.edu
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Robert R. Locke is Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Reading. He is the author of several books on comparative management and business education, including The End of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain 1880-1940 (Jai Press, 1984) and Management and Higher Education since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain and France (CUP, 1989).