Read Write Work or Restoring Japans Economic Growth

Read! Write! Work!

Author: Thomas Wil

This exciting new text designed for developmental composition at two year colleges is the first developmental English text to introduce students to combine the necessities of reading and writing with the world of work. Read! Write! Work! Introduces students to the principles and techniques of everyday writing and reviews the well-constructed paragraph.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Preparing Yourself. 1. Why Read? Why Write? 2. Organizing Your Writing Projects. 3. Looking Within. 4. Looking Forward. Part II: Writing Techniques. 5. Exchanging Information. 6. Identifying What¦s Important. 7. Sorting Things Out. 8. Thinking Things Up. 9. Thinking Things Through. 10. Looking Outward. Part III: Opportunities. 11. Writing a Report. 12. Writing Standards for Developmental English. 13. Computer Fundamentals.

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Restoring Japan's Economic Growth

Author: Adam S Posen

This timely report by the Institute for International Economics has received worldwide coverage in leading newspapers and magazines, including The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week, Asahi Shimbun and others. The author launched his book at the Central Bank of Japan in mid-September. While it is hoped that that the book will be read at the highest echelons of Japan's government in an attempt to reverse the country's economic downslide, it is also accessible to others with an interest in the country's economy.

Adam S. Posen, Research Fellow, is a monetary economist specializing in the political economy of macroeconomic performance in the industrial democracies. He is the author or co-author of numerous works on monetary policy, comparative financial systems, and international political economy including Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (Princeton University Press 1998) and Why Central Bank Independence Does Not Cause Low Inflation (1993). He received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, where he was an NSF Graduate Fellow from 1989-92. Prior to joining the Institute, he was Economist in International Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-97), Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution (1993-94), and a Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany (1992-93).

The Financial Times - Marvin Wolf

An excellent book.

Journal of Economic Literature - Charles Yuji Horioka

Its analysis is convincing, and its policy recommendations are...sensible. I strongly recommend it to economists and policymakers alike. I...hope that Japanese policymakers have the wisdom to heed his advice.

What People Are Saying

Robert Solomon
A thorough and compelling analysis of and prescription for Japan's economic weakness.

Robert Alan Feldman
Provocative . . . A major contribution to the debate on Japanese policy. . . Even creative destructionists can agree with the Posen Program.

Matthew Miller
The doomsday scenario (scaring officials in Washington and Tokyo) is laid out . . . by Adam Posen

Isamu Miyazaki
The . . .analysis and proposals are very interesting, useful, and timely...
— (Isamu Miyazaki, Special Advisor of the Daiwa Institute of Research and former Minister of Economic Planning Agency, Japan)

Benjamin Friedman
Japan's persistent stagnation is among the most important problems confronting the world economy today, and Adam Posen's treatment of it is the best I have seen. His analysis is right on the mark, and his policy porposals bear attention at the highest level of the Japanese government.
— (Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University)