Financial Stabilization in Meiji JapanWith a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial stabilization programa sort of precursor of the "neoliberal" reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990sMatsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both