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Professor Dore learned Japanese during the war and has spent most of his life studying Japanese society and economy, though with emphasis, also, on what comparison with Japan can tell one about third world development and about the problems of education and industrial relations in the OECD countries. He has a degree in Japanese from London University (1947), has taught at London University, University of British Columbia, Harvard and MIT in departments of sociology, history and political science, and has had research positions at the Institute of Development Studies and the Technical Change Centre. He is a member of the British Academy and honorary foreign member of the Japanese Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also wrote numerous books on Japanese society and economy, including the most recent one, Stockmarket Capitalism, Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons.
The frequently remarked difference between the economic institutions of America and Britain on the one hand and of the countries of continental Europe and Japan on the other -- Anglo-Saxon versus Rhenish/Japanese capitalism -- is a valid one, but both varieties are in continuous evolution. The intensification of competition, the increasing dominance of finance, and the victory of "shareholder value" norms over corporatist, stakeholder business ideologies have made Britain and America very different societies from what they were twenty years ago. In his lecture, he will discuss whether there is some revolutionary inevitability which ensures that Germany and Japan must follow along the same track. Or will they retain their distinctive institutions, and even provide a model for others?
The lecture will be held at Rayson Huang Lecture Theatre, the University of Hong Kong at 5:30pm on Monday, February 5, 2001. Members of the Press and interested public are cordially invited to attend.
Japanese Society and Economy Professor to deliver Kenneth Robinson Fellowship Lecture at HKU
02 Feb 2001
Professor Ronald P. Dore, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, will deliver a Kenneth Robinson Fellowship Lecture entitled Will Global Capitalism be of the Anglo-American Variety? at the University of Hong Kong on February 5, 2001.
Professor Dore learned Japanese during the war and has spent most of his life studying Japanese society and economy, though with emphasis, also, on what comparison with Japan can tell one about third world development and about the problems of education and industrial relations in the OECD countries. He has a degree in Japanese from London University (1947), has taught at London University, University of British Columbia, Harvard and MIT in departments of sociology, history and political science, and has had research positions at the Institute of Development Studies and the Technical Change Centre. He is a member of the British Academy and honorary foreign member of the Japanese Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also wrote numerous books on Japanese society and economy, including the most recent one, Stockmarket Capitalism, Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons.
The frequently remarked difference between the economic institutions of America and Britain on the one hand and of the countries of continental Europe and Japan on the other -- Anglo-Saxon versus Rhenish/Japanese capitalism -- is a valid one, but both varieties are in continuous evolution. The intensification of competition, the increasing dominance of finance, and the victory of "shareholder value" norms over corporatist, stakeholder business ideologies have made Britain and America very different societies from what they were twenty years ago. In his lecture, he will discuss whether there is some revolutionary inevitability which ensures that Germany and Japan must follow along the same track. Or will they retain their distinctive institutions, and even provide a model for others?
The lecture will be held at Rayson Huang Lecture Theatre, the University of Hong Kong at 5:30pm on Monday, February 5, 2001. Members of the Press and interested public are cordially invited to attend.
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