Japan and the Growth-Equity-Small Government Impossible Triangle: Lessons from the United States and the Nordic Economies

By introducing a new policy framework, namely the ’Equity-Growth-Small Government Impossible Triangle’, based on reviewing the policies of the United States, the Nordic economies and Japan, the book examines current and future prospects of Japan.

Jun Saito is a Senior Research Fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research. He studied economics at the University of Tokyo and obtained an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford. He was a government economist at the Economic Planning Agency and the Cabinet Office, where he served as the Director-General of the Economic Research Bureau from 2007-12. During that time, he also worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and at the Japan Center for Economic Research. He has held various university posts, including Project Professor, Graduate School of Business and Commerce, Keio University (2012-17), and Visiting Professor, Department of Economics and Business, International Christian University (2016-21).