Eamonn Fingleton
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| Born | Eamonn Fingleton August 19, 1948 |
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| Nationality | Irish  |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Japan revisionism |
| Spouse | Yasuka |
| Website Official website |
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Eamonn Fingleton (b. 19 August 1948) is an Irish journalist and author. His books, written for a general audience, deal with global economics and globalism. His articles have been published in The Atlantic Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review, among others.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Ireland in 1948, he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1970 earning a degree in economics and mathematics. He worked in Dublin, London, New York, and Tokyo as a financial journalist before becoming a full-time author in 1991.
[edit] Career
He is best known for his analyses since the mid 1980s of the Japanese business, financial, and manufacturing system, but he has often applied lessons from Japan's experience to US, European, and other policy questions. He argues the Western world is gullible about Asian economic systems, or has difficulty in understanding them realistically. That was the main argument of his analysis of the Japanese economy in Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000. It was named one of the Ten Best Business Books of 1995 by BusinessWeek.[1]
His second book In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity published in 1999, took a contrarian stance on the New Economy.
His most recent book In the Jaws of the Dragon, his first concerning China, argues that rather than converging on Western values, the Communist state will remain authoritarian and mercantilist. [2]
His books have been praised by James Fallows, Pat Choate, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Nader, Senator Ernest Hollings, Roger Milliken, former President Bill Clinton, Chalmers Johnson and Robert Heller.[citation needed]
One day after the United States and Britain went to war in Iraq in 2003, he published an op-ed article in the International Herald Tribune arguing, based on the experience of the U.S. occupation of Japan, that trouble lay ahead for the Western occupiers of Iraq. [3]
[edit] Books
- In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in an Era of Chinese Hegemony (2008). St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 0-312-36232-3
- In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (1999). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-89968-0
- Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. By the Year 2000 (1995). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-63316-8
