Bio

Sanford M. Jacoby is Distinguished Research Professor of History, Management and Public Policy at UCLA. Trained as an economist, Jacoby studies the workplace and labor markets using comparative and historical methods. With respect to Japan, he is best known for his book, The Embedded Corporation: Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States (Princeton UP, 2005; Japanese translation, Nihon no jinjibu, America no jinjibu, Toyai Keizai, 2006). He regularly visits Japan to teach at Doshisha University and to do research.