2012 was a year of big elections in the United States, Russia and France. But it could be that the election in Japan will matter most to the global economy. The new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, says he will print money to save Japan’s economy from a slump that has lasted two long decades. RFI interviews Richard Warner, an economist who is not Japanese, but extremely well known in Japan for writing a best-selling in 2001 about, of all things, monetary policy.
