Princes of the Yen
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2nd Complete Edition, including the “Long Lost Last Chapter”
Editorial Reviews
Superb. A gripping page-turner.
Professor Kozo Yamamura
University of Washington
A powerful work.
Eisuke Sakakibara, “Mr Yen”
A path-breaking piece of research. Werner’s style is gripping and lucid. Few books I have read manage to get their point across to a non-specialist audience as well as this one.
Dr Tobias Hoschka
Asian Development Bank
This is no ordinary economics book. Readers will find the curtains pulled away from their eyes. Given the time scale involved – the whole of the twentieth century – and its broad scope – looking at central bankers’ actions worldwide – this superb book will make you marvel at how fascinating economics really is. Richard Werner could see through the Bank of Japan’s smokescreens. The process of disclosing all these facts step by step is as gripping as a thriller. His analysis has been highly appraised internationally, being prominently quoted in the Economist and read by the Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.
Takashi Tachibana
Prize winning author
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Princes of the Yen – Japan’s Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy
2nd Complete Edition, including the “Long Lost Last Chapter”
Princes of the Yen reveals how money works, who creates it and how it is deployed to cause boom and bust cycles, crises, recessions and deep changes in society. Professor Werner identifies the unexplored role of central banks and their grip on the economy through their control of credit creation. Princes of the Yen reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept in the dark about this. This book poses an unprecedented challenge to the dominant ideological belief system in economics and the control levers that underpin it. Piece by piece, reality is deconstructed to reveal the world as it is, not as those in power would like us to believe it is.
At the same time this book presents a new analysis of Japanese economic development in the 20th century as well as the East Asian high growth growth model in general, which is based on the Japanese system. Richard finds that it is possible to have sustainable, equitable and high economic growth without crises and without inflation – if only central bankers were to pursue these goals.
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| Book Type | Hardback, Paperback, Digital Download |
| ISBN | Hardback: 978-3-946333-03-6 Paperback: 978-3-946333-01-2 Digital Download: 978-3-946333-04-3 |