"Zaisei-no Shikumi-ga Wakaru-Hon" by JIN'NO Naohiko

The author is a professor of Tokyo University, and the title means "A book to understand public budgets".

This book is one of 'Iwanami Junior New Books' series, so I expected that the contents are written easily. (Iwanami is a big publishing company in Japan.) However, it was not true at least for me. Many difficult things are written in difficult way! (^_^;;;

Anyway the insistence of the author is very clear: (1) contradictory against privatization of national projects like life lines, communications, and power supplies, (2) contradictory against the reformation of the public budgets, (3) approval for the tax increase, and (4) approval for the decentralization. These are very interesting, though I don't agree some of these.

(Finished reading on Dec.10, 2007)


The more detailed Japanese version of this article is here!

Japanese character(s) (kanji)
* JIN'NO Naohiko : 神野直彦
* Zaisei-no Shikumi-ga Wakaru-Hon : 財政のしくみがわかる本