Steven J Ericson
Biographic Data
| ID | 747439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven J Ericson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ericson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICSON S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Antitrust in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952: Complicating the ‘Reverse Course’ View”
Scholarship on postwar U.S. Occupation of Japan invariably has held that it “reversed course” in 1947-1948, as the United States pivoted from reforming an erstwhile enemy to rehabilitating a Cold War ally; for business, this “reversal” involved an about-face from dismantling large companies to promoting their recovery. This article suggests the need to revise in two respects the “reverse course” narrative. On one hand, several divisions within Su…
Martin Dusinberre. Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories
E lisabeth K öll . Railroads and the Transformation of China
In Elisabeth Köll’s words, Railroads and the Transformation of China is “the first comprehensive survey of the development of Chinese railroads during the last 120 years in any language” (385). Köll in fact excludes the previously well-studied railways of Manchuria, where, under Russian and Japanese control, a different dynamic prevailed through World War II. She also focuses on three major railroad lines south of the Great Wall: the Tianjin–Puko…
Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform
With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, this book overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. The book shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program—a sort of precursor of the “neoliberal” reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s—Matsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthod…
Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina
Reviewed by: To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina Steven J. Ericson (bio) To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History. By Mark Ravina. Oxford University Press, New York, 2017. xiv, 312 pages. $29.95. This outstanding book fits in with the wave of conferences, workshops, publications, and podcasts commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Meiji [En…
Smithian rhetoric, Listian practice: The Matsukata ‘retrenchment’ and industrial policy, 1881–1885
A widely accepted view of the Matsukata financial reform of 1881–1885 is that, by privatizing the state’s non-military factories and shipyards as well as mines, the reform produced a dramatic change in industrial policy away from direct government intervention in the economy, in keeping with classical European economic liberalism. In addition, the sale of state enterprises is seen as having played an integral role in Matsukata’s program of financ…
Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885
Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885 Steven J. Ericson (bio) In 1880–1881 the Japanese government embarked on a pivotal program of financial stabilization that came to bear the name of Matsukata Masayoshi 松方正義 (1835–1924), who brought the program to fruition after he became minister of finance in October 1881. The aim was to deal with the severe inflatio…
Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan
This article examines the largely unexplored topic of Japan’s foreign trade in rice during the Meiji period. In the middle decades of that era, japonica -type rice became a major Japanese export, highly esteemed in Western countries. In the 1890s, however, Western markets for Japanese rice shrank as the price of the grain rose; meanwhile, crop failures in Japan, combined with the ready availability of cheaper, long-grain indica varieties from Sou…
The “Matsukata Deflation” Reconsidered: Financial Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881–85
This article reexamines the causes, effects, and duration of the Matsukata deflation of the early 1880s, one of the most severe contractions in modern Japanese history, together with the policies Minister of Finance Matsukata Masayoshi pursued. It also investigates the understudied relationship between Japan’s deflationary crisis and the contemporaneous global depression. Contrary to the standard narrative, Matsukata eventually succeeded at finan…
Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
This highly engaging book combines literary and historical approaches to explore modes of mass transportation in early-twentieth-century Tokyo and the effects that those modes exerted on social and
ANDREW Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Journal Article Andrew Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. Get access Andrew Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes, number 19.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 285. $49.95. Steven J. Ericson Steven J. Ericson Dartmouth College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1953 (review)
Reviewed by: Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953 Steven J. Ericson (bio) Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953. By Haruo Iguchi. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. viii, 362 pages. $40.00. In this carefully researched book, Haruo Iguchi meticulously chronicles one failure after another by Ayukawa Yoshisuke, founder of the Nissan combine and the semipu…
The Industrial Revolution in the Twentieth Century, with a Focus on Japan and the East Asian Followers
Journal Article The Industrial Revolution in the Twentieth Century, with a Focus on Japan and the East Asian Followers Get access Steven J. Ericson Steven J. Ericson Steven J. Ericson is an associate professor in the Department of History at Dartmouth College. He teaches courses in East Asian and particularly modern Japanese history. His publications include The Sound of the Whistle: Raihoads and the State in Meiji Japan (1996) and “Importing Loc…
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry . Albert J. Churella
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan
Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time
Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
In this detailed study of the development of the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period, Steven Ericson explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations during Japan's modern transformation. Ericson challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the roles of the Japanese government and commercial banks in Meiji industrialization. By providing a fresh perspective on the strong state/weak s…
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
The Role of Labour-Intensive Sectors in Japanese Industrialization
Technological Innovation and the Development of Transportation in Japan
Smithian rhetoric, Listian practice: The Matsukata ‘retrenchment’ and industrial policy, 1881–1885
A widely accepted view of the Matsukata financial reform of 1881–1885 is that, by privatizing the state’s non-military factories and shipyards as well as mines, the reform produced a dramatic change in industrial policy away from direct government intervention in the economy, in keeping with classical European economic liberalism. In addition, the sale of state enterprises is seen as having played an integral role in Matsukata’s program of financ…
Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan
This article examines the largely unexplored topic of Japan’s foreign trade in rice during the Meiji period. In the middle decades of that era, japonica -type rice became a major Japanese export, highly esteemed in Western countries. In the 1890s, however, Western markets for Japanese rice shrank as the price of the grain rose; meanwhile, crop failures in Japan, combined with the ready availability of cheaper, long-grain indica varieties from Sou…
Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry
The Role of Labour-Intensive Sectors in Japanese Industrialization
Technological Innovation and the Development of Transportation in Japan
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
In this detailed study of the development of the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period, Steven Ericson explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations during Japan's modern transformation. Ericson challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the roles of the Japanese government and commercial banks in Meiji industrialization. By providing a fresh perspective on the strong state/weak s…
Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan
Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time
The Industrial Revolution in the Twentieth Century, with a Focus on Japan and the East Asian Followers
Journal Article The Industrial Revolution in the Twentieth Century, with a Focus on Japan and the East Asian Followers Get access Steven J. Ericson Steven J. Ericson Steven J. Ericson is an associate professor in the Department of History at Dartmouth College. He teaches courses in East Asian and particularly modern Japanese history. His publications include The Sound of the Whistle: Raihoads and the State in Meiji Japan (1996) and “Importing Loc…
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry . Albert J. Churella
Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1953 (review)
Reviewed by: Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953 Steven J. Ericson (bio) Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953. By Haruo Iguchi. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. viii, 362 pages. $40.00. In this carefully researched book, Haruo Iguchi meticulously chronicles one failure after another by Ayukawa Yoshisuke, founder of the Nissan combine and the semipu…
ANDREW Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Journal Article Andrew Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. Get access Andrew Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes, number 19.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 285. $49.95. Steven J. Ericson Steven J. Ericson Dartmouth College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
The “Matsukata Deflation” Reconsidered: Financial Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881–85
This article reexamines the causes, effects, and duration of the Matsukata deflation of the early 1880s, one of the most severe contractions in modern Japanese history, together with the policies Minister of Finance Matsukata Masayoshi pursued. It also investigates the understudied relationship between Japan’s deflationary crisis and the contemporaneous global depression. Contrary to the standard narrative, Matsukata eventually succeeded at finan…
Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
This highly engaging book combines literary and historical approaches to explore modes of mass transportation in early-twentieth-century Tokyo and the effects that those modes exerted on social and
Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan
This article examines the largely unexplored topic of Japan’s foreign trade in rice during the Meiji period. In the middle decades of that era, japonica -type rice became a major Japanese export, highly esteemed in Western countries. In the 1890s, however, Western markets for Japanese rice shrank as the price of the grain rose; meanwhile, crop failures in Japan, combined with the ready availability of cheaper, long-grain indica varieties from Sou…
Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885
Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885 Steven J. Ericson (bio) In 1880–1881 the Japanese government embarked on a pivotal program of financial stabilization that came to bear the name of Matsukata Masayoshi 松方正義 (1835–1924), who brought the program to fruition after he became minister of finance in October 1881. The aim was to deal with the severe inflatio…
Smithian rhetoric, Listian practice: The Matsukata ‘retrenchment’ and industrial policy, 1881–1885
A widely accepted view of the Matsukata financial reform of 1881–1885 is that, by privatizing the state’s non-military factories and shipyards as well as mines, the reform produced a dramatic change in industrial policy away from direct government intervention in the economy, in keeping with classical European economic liberalism. In addition, the sale of state enterprises is seen as having played an integral role in Matsukata’s program of financ…
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina
Reviewed by: To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina Steven J. Ericson (bio) To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History. By Mark Ravina. Oxford University Press, New York, 2017. xiv, 312 pages. $29.95. This outstanding book fits in with the wave of conferences, workshops, publications, and podcasts commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Meiji [En…
Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform
With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, this book overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. The book shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program—a sort of precursor of the “neoliberal” reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s—Matsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthod…
Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform
E lisabeth K öll . Railroads and the Transformation of China
In Elisabeth Köll’s words, Railroads and the Transformation of China is “the first comprehensive survey of the development of Chinese railroads during the last 120 years in any language” (385). Köll in fact excludes the previously well-studied railways of Manchuria, where, under Russian and Japanese control, a different dynamic prevailed through World War II. She also focuses on three major railroad lines south of the Great Wall: the Tianjin–Puko…
Martin Dusinberre. Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories
“Antitrust in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952: Complicating the ‘Reverse Course’ View”
Scholarship on postwar U.S. Occupation of Japan invariably has held that it “reversed course” in 1947-1948, as the United States pivoted from reforming an erstwhile enemy to rehabilitating a Cold War ally; for business, this “reversal” involved an about-face from dismantling large companies to promoting their recovery. This article suggests the need to revise in two respects the “reverse course” narrative. On one hand, several divisions within Su…
History (15 works) · Japanese History and Culture (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Meiji period (8 works) · Economic history (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (6 works)