PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INDIGENOUS TRADITION AMONG EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPANESE FIRMS

Old habits die hard. We heard in college if not before that all we know is culturally contingent. Now, we find it hard to make the objective cross-cultural comparisons inherent in serious social science. We heard with all the moral confidence of Jonathan Edwards that only orientalist boors make transnational value judgments. Now, we find it hard to admit that some economic systems consistently outperform others.