12 Facts About Eamonn Fingleton

Eamonn Fingleton was born on 19 August 1948 and is an Irish financial journalist and author who for 27 years covered global finance and economics from a base in Tokyo.

Eamonn Fingleton's books, written for a general audience, deal with global economics and globalism.

Eamonn Fingleton has published five books which have been translated into several languages.

Eamonn Fingleton holds that Japanese leaders have deliberately exaggerated their nation's problems in an attempt to assuage American angst about Japan's trade barriers.

Eamonn Fingleton worked in Dublin, London, New York City, and Tokyo as a financial journalist before becoming a full-time author in 1991.

Eamonn Fingleton is best known for his analyses since the mid-1980s of the Japanese business, financial, and manufacturing system, and he has applied lessons from Japan's experience to US, European, and other policy questions.

Eamonn Fingleton was one of the earliest critics of financialisation, arguing that there is no substitute for advanced manufacturing industries as the main pillar of an advanced economy.

Eamonn Fingleton suggests that the United States made a catastrophic mistake in the 1990s in allowing leadership in such industries to pass to Japan.

Eamonn Fingleton's second US-published 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.

Eamonn Fingleton has repeatedly challenged intellectual opponents to a public debate on the Japanese economy.

Eamonn Fingleton holds that by suppressing consumption, a government can powerfully boost a nation's savings rate.

Eamonn Fingleton writes that a crucial part of Japan's strategy is to keep its most advanced production technologies at home, thereby maximising the productivity advantage of its home workforce.