Dear all, 

On behalf of Tamotsu Nishizawa and Atsushi Komine,
I post the following sad news for western readers: 

Yukihiro Ikeda

It is with deep sadness and regret that we have to report the sudden
passing of Professor Yuichi Shionoya, Emeritus Professor of Hitotsubashi
Univesity, on 25th August, 2015, in Tokyo. 
He died of lung cancer at the age of 83.  Professor Shionoya  had served
as the President of Hitotsubashi University
from 1989 to 1992; and subsequently as the Director of the National
Institute of
Population and Social Security Research from 1995 to 2000. 

Professor Shionoya is an eminent scholar of Joseph A. Schumpeter, and he served
as the President of the International Schumpeter Society from 1990 to 1992.
In addition to his Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science: A
Metatheoretical Study (Cambridge University Press, 1997), he co-edited
with Mark Perlman, Schumpeter in the History of Ides (University of
Michigan Press, 1994). His other important works include The Soul of the
German Historical School. Methodological Essays on Schmoller, Weber, and
Schumpeter (Springer, 2005); Economy and Morality. The Philosophy of the
Welfare State (Edward Elgar, 2005). He also edited The German Historical
School: The Historical and Ethical Approach to Economics (Routledge,
2001) for the Japanese Society of the History of Economic Thought; and
recently co-edited Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution: Economic
Sociology of Capitalist Development (Edward Elgar, 2008). 

He was awarded the Japanese Academy Prize for his economic philosophical
works, in particular, Structure of Values: Utility vs Right (1984, in Japanese),
and he left his last book, Economic Thought of Romanticism: Arts, Ethics,
and History (2012, in Japanese), a part of which was lately published as 
“Ruskin’s Romantic Triangle: Neither Wealth Nor Beauty But Life” in
The History of Economic Ideas, 2014. 

Professor Shionoya had made links with scholars around the world,
particularly in the United States and Europe. He will be much missed.

Tamotsu Nishizawa (Hitotsubashi University / Teikyo University)

Atsushi Komine (Ryukoku University)

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Yukihiro Ikeda
Department of Economics
Keio University
Mita 2-15-45, Minato-ku
108-8345 Tokyo, Japan
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