PhD Candidate Henry Tonks Publishes Article in Journal of Pacific and American Studies
PhD candidate Henry Tonks has recently published an article in the Journal of Pacific and American Studies. The journal is published by the Center for Pacific and American Studies, a part of the Institute for Advanced Global Studies at the University of Tokyo. The article, titled “Looking East: What American Neoliberals Learned from Japanese Political Economy – and How They Unlearned It, 1981-1994,” is on the formulation of neoliberal politics within the Democratic Party in the 1980s and early 1990s. Tonks discusses this in terms of how neoliberals’ economic policies were inspired by Japan’s ‘economic miracle,’ rather than necessarily being accommodations to conservative or free-market economics.