Autor/-in: Richard Katz

Richard Katz is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, as well as a Special Correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai. The Contest For Japan's Economic Future. is his third book and, like his first two, will also be published in Japanese. 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). For two decades, he published a monthly newsletter on Japan called "The Oriental Economist Report. " Now he publishes a free blog called "Japan Economy Watch. " His essays and opeds have been published in Foreign Affairs. , The New York Times. , The Wall Street Journa. l, 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 at New York University. He received his M. A. in Economics from New York University in 1996