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>From The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) 
 
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Shiro Sugihara and Toshihiro Tanaka eds, in association with _The Japanese 
Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) _, 
_Economic Thought and Modernization in Japan_, Edward Elgar Publishing,  
Hardback, 1998, 182 pages. 
 
This comprehensive book charts the development of economic thought in  
Japan and reveals how leading Japanese economists tried to understand 
and cope with significant economic and social problems in the process  
of modernization. It sheds new light on the nature and degree of  
intellectual modernization that accompanied Japan' impressive social 
and economic development during the last 150 years. 
 
The book begins by tracing the development of several currents of 
economic thought during the Tokugawa period, which represented the  
intellectual prerequisites of modern economic growth in Japan. The  
authors go on to discuss the development in the Meiji era and the 
interwar preiod before focusing on the development of economic thought 
after 1945. They examine Marxian and non-Marxian approaches to economic 
development and political economy and relate this to the development 
of economic thought in Japan. They also assess the considerable influence 
of Adam Smith on the development of economic thought in Japan. 
 
CONTENTS: 
Preface (Toshihiro Tanaka) 
Introduction: Modernization and the development of economic thought in  
        Japan (Shiro Sugihara) 
Chapter 1: Trends in economic thought in the Tokugawa period (Masamichi  
        Komuro) 
Chapter 2: Enlightenment and economic thought in Meiji Japan: Yukichi  
        Fukuzawa and Ukichi Taguchi (Jiro Kumagai) 
Chapter 3: The Japanese social policy school: its formation and breakup  
        (Takashi Fujii) 
Chapter 4: Two inquirers on the divide: Tokuzo Fukuda and Hajime Kawakami 
        (Takutoshi Inoue and Kiichiro Yagi) 
Chapter 5: The debate on Japanese capitalism: the Koza faction and its  
        perception of society (Takaho Ando) 
Chapter 6: General equilibrium theory and beyond: Yasuma Takata and Kei 
        Shibata (Takashi Negishi) 
Chapter 7: Modernization and the studies of Adam Smith in Japan during 
        and after World War II: Kazuo Okouchi, Zenya Takashima and  
        Yoshihiko Uchida (Satoshi Niimura) 
Chapter 8: Economic development and economic thought after World War II: 
        non-Marxian economists on development, trade and industry (Aiko 
        Ikeo) 
Chapter 9: Economic development and economic thought after World War II: 
        economic development and Marxian political economy (Toshio Yamada) 
General bibliography; Name index; Subject index 
 
Michio Akama ([log in to unmask]) 
JSHET (The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought)  
Home Page URL: 
 http://society.cpm.ehime-u.ac.jp/shet/shet.html 
 
 
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