Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s

Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government''s goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government''s ability, they continue to expect the best of governmental intervention. To study government competence i...