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The preoccupation of critical IPE (international political economy) theory with the global neoliberal program of deregulation & restructuring tends to hide the emergence of alternative patterns of regulation in different sites of global transformation. Currently, Japanese capitalism projects on a regional plane, concepts of regulation that negate neoliberal discourse. The contours of the regionalization of Japan's state & economy are taking shape in the form of tightly coordinated production networks, administrative guidance of investment patterns, & a regional division of labor. The roots of Japan's regulation strategy for the Asian region are traced to a historical logic of ideological, political & institutional responses of Japanese capitalism to structural change in the world order. At three successive moments in the history of Japanese capitalism, the strategic competence, conscious compromises, & "sense of direction" of administrators played a critical role. It is contended that an account of the history of this intellectual stratum in the process of social differentiation would not only shed light on the persistence of Japan's enigmatic political culture, but also clarify the absence of liberal ideas in Japanese concepts of regulation. 45 References. Adapted from the source document.

'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.

Traces the roots of Japan's regulation strategy for the Asian region to a historical logic of ideological, political and institutional responses of Japanese capitalism to structural change in the world. Suggests that at 3 successive moments in the history of Japanese capitalism, the strategic competence, conscious compromises and sense of direction of administrators played a critical role. (Original abstract-amended)

AbstractA service center to which customers bring failed items for repair is considered. The items are exchangeable in the sense that a customer is ready to take in return for the failed item he brought to the center any good item of the same kind. This exchangeability feature makes it possible for the service center to possess spares. The focus of the article is on customer delay in the system—the time that elapses since the arrival of a customer with a failed item and his departure with a good one—when repaired items are given to waiting customers on a FIFO basis. An algorithm is developed for the computation of the delay distribution when the item repair system operates as an M/M/c queue.