"Discusses how Japan's finance minister Matsukata Masayoshi carried out his program of financial stabilization in the early to mid-1880s by pursuing policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one"-- Provided by publisher.

From Ōkuma finance to Matsukata finance, 1873-1881 -- Orthodox finance and the dictates of practical expediency : influences on Matsukata -- Austerity and expansion : the Matsukata reform, 1881-1885 -- Spending in a time of retrenchment : industrial policy and the military -- Founding a central bank -- Poor peasant, poor country? : the Matsukata deflation.