Japan and the Study of the History of Economic Thought
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- ISBN 9780367511760
- Weight: 662g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This volume marks the first English translation of Toshihiro Tanaka’s research outside Japan, offering a rare opportunity for international scholars to explore the relationship between Western economic thought and Japan.
Rigorous in its analysis and broad in scope, the volume is structured in five parts that cut a path through classical economics and the Scottish Enlightenment, through to the lectures of modern and neoclassical economics, before concluding with studies in the influence of American and Australian economics in Japan. Studies incorporate work from philosophers such as Bernard Mandeville, Irving Fisher, Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Dorfman, but also pay due attention to work from the Society for the History of Economic Thought of Japan since 1981. Concerned with the methodology of writing a history of economics, the latter parts of the volume are composed from selected materials, including a previously unpublished letter from David Hume to Adam Smith, book reviews, and a word of remembrance for the late Professor Peter Groenewegen.
Japan and the Study of the History of Economic Thought will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy, economics and Japanese studies more broadly.
Professor Toshihiro Tanaka graduated from Osaka University of Commerce and had post-graduation education at both Columbia and Syracuse Universities from where he obtained the MA. His teaching career started as research assistant at Kwansei Gakuin University in 1953 and studied and taught the history of economic thought there for about 45 years until his retirement in 1998. During the period at the University, he occupied important posts such as Dean of the Department of Economics and Dean of the Library. His research experiences also included some years in UK as a visiting scholar at Glasgow and Cambridge Universities as well as in China as an exchange professor of Jilin University. In addition to many of his educational responsibilities at the university, he contributed actively to various academic societies and served as the President of The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought.
