(New Date) Resurrecting Entrepreneurship to Revive Japan
Monday, February 24, 2025 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Room 640, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Richard Katz, Editor, Japan Economy Watch; Special Correspondent, Toyo Keizai Inc.
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
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Topics to be covered:
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Why Japan needs more entrepreneurship to grow better
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Entrepreneurship drove the high-growth era; how did Japan lose it? How can it get it back?
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Biography:
Richard Katz is a Special Correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai and the publisher of Japan Economy Watch on Substack at https://richardkatz.substack.com/.
His new book on Japan (2023), The Contest for Japan’s Economic Future: Entrepreneurs vs. Corporate Giants, is about the growing opportunity to revive Japan’s economy reviving entrepreneurship. It will be out in Japanese in 2025. The Financial Times listed it among the best economics books this year. His two previous books were Japan: The System That Soured--The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle (1998) and Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (2003), both of which were also published in Japanese.
For 20 years he published a monthly newsletter on Japan called The Oriental Economist Report.
His essays and op-eds have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The International Economy. He’s testified several times to Congressional committees.
He also taught about Japan’s economy as an adjunct lecturer at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and New York University. He received his BA from Columbia in 1973 and MA in Economics from New York University in 1996.
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Admission and Contact:
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Special Notes:
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