Administrative Consultants in Meiji Japan
26/03/2007 - 16:00
26 March 2007
Leiden, the Netherlands
By Dr Katalin Ferber, affiliated fellow
The lecture offers some detailed analysis and conceptual questions on the origin of modern Japanese state finances. I attempt to shed light on the historical links between the continental (European) financial and fiscal concepts and their Japanese, modified and adapted versions in the course of the first half of the Meiji period.
My argument is organized around two important issues. One is the Cameralism (in German Kameralwissenschaften) which had profound effects on various Japanese young men who studied abroad. The other one is the origin of Japanese bureaucratic professionalism, which also utilized in a significant extent the ideas of the administrative consultants as Schumpeter called the European Cameralists.
Venue: PJ Veth building
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden
Room 329
Time: 16.00-17.00
Information:
Marise van Amersfoort, Fellowship Coordinator
International Institute for Asian Studies
P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
T +31-71-527 4159