Discussion Papers 2023

CIRJE-J-308	『ミクロ的視点からみた戦時経済：日本における経済統制のデザイン・機能と生産システムのイノベーション』 "Japanese War Economy from Micro-perspectives:Design and Function of Economic Controls, and Innovation of Production Process"
Author Name	岡崎哲二（Tetsuji Okazaki）
Date	November 2023
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Abstract (in Japanese)	Abstract (in English)
	This paper summarizes the author’s recent three papers on the Japanese war economy from the late 1930s to the early 1940s. Under the war, Japan experienced a transition from a market economy to a planned and controlled economy . Th is transition was a process of trial and error , and various schemes of economic controls were applied. T his paper explains how these schemes worked , focus ing on that for fund allocation restricting fund flow to the “nonessential and nonurgent” industries, that for promoting export by link ing foreign exchange allocation with export performance, and that for mass production of merchant ships.

Abstract (in Japanese)

Abstract (in English)

This paper summarizes the author’s recent three papers on the Japanese war economy
from the late 1930s to the early 1940s. Under the war, Japan experienced a transition
from a market economy to a planned and controlled economy . Th is transition was a
process of trial and error , and various schemes of economic controls were applied. T his
paper explains how these schemes worked , focus ing on that for fund allocation
restricting fund flow to the “nonessential and nonurgent” industries, that for promoting
export by link ing foreign exchange allocation with export performance, and that for
mass production of merchant ships.