================ HES POSTING ======================= >From The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) ----- 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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]