... private car ownership with the reduction in the average costs of running a car. However today there are very few further economics of scale available in the motor industry, which is common for many mature industries, as an increase in the number of cars on the road does not guaranty a benefit for society and has both positive and negative effects on the ... policies. The excess use of road transport imposes external costs that lie hidden from the consumer in the sense of actual use of road transport but are paid for in other indirect forms. It is apparent that the dependency upon road t...

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... private car ownership with the reduction in the average costs of running a car. However today there are very few further economics of scale available in the motor industry, which is common for many mature industries, as an increase in the number of cars on the road does not guaranty a benefit for society and has both positive and negative effects on the ... policies. The excess use of road transport imposes external costs that lie hidden from the consumer in the sense of actual use of road transport but are paid for in other indirect forms. It is apparent that the dependency upon road t...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... the majority of the people'29. This view is echoed in the writing of Matsuo Takayoshi, who states that liberal ideas were 'limited to the middle class in Tokyo; the common people in general had no political consciousness and tamely followed the government's policy of expansion on the Asiatic continent.'30 Indeed, Japanese social values of obedience to authority and respect ... the Prince Regent's life in 1923 appeared as confirmation to many conservatives within government of that which they greatly feared: subversive elements were plotting to unravel the Kotukai, Japan's collecti...

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