Contracting in Japan
The Bargains People Make When Information is Costly, Commitment is Hard, Friendships are Unstable, and Suing is Not Worth It
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- Paperback
230 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2023
Summary
Economic arrangements, Ramseyer writes, are structured and implemented with the intent and hope that they will be carried out with ‘care, intelligence, discretion, and effort.’ Yet entrepreneurs work with partial information about the products, and people, they are dealing with. Contracting in Japan illustrates this by examining five sets of negotiations and unusual contractual arrangements among non-specialist businessmen, and women, in Japan. In it, Ramseyer explores how sake brewe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009215718 |
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| ISBN-10: | 100921571X |
| Author: | J. Mark Ramseyer |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 151mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society |
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About The Author
J. Mark Ramseyer
J. Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the US for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS in 1982. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen Breyer (then on the First Circuit), worked for two years at Sidley & Austin (in corporate tax), and studied as a Fulbright student at the University of Tokyo. After teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago, he came to Harvard in 1998. He has also taught or co-taught courses at several Japanese universities (in Japanese). For his contribution to mutual understanding between Japan and the US, Ramseyer was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, by the Japanese government in 2018.
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