The Development of a Credit System in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10096123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sydney Crawcour (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 342-360 |
| Publication date | 1961-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700102943 |
| OpenAlex | W2120854450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Japan was just emerging from a long period of internal strife and was beginning to settle down under a centralized feudal system introduced by the newly established Tokugawa government. In the following period of peace, economic development was very rapid. Along with commercial development and the monetization of important sections of the economy, a system of credit institutions evolved, notably in Osaka, which by the end of the century was not inferior to those existing in Europe at that time. The financial innovations and developments of the first half of the century were systematized in the latter half, and the resulting credit system became an indispensable part of Japan's economic life. In particular it played an important part in facilitating the spurt in Japan's economic development which occurred roughly between 1690 and 1740
Art · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Feudalism · Monetization · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1963 - 2008 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |