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CONTENTS:
 

• Preface (Shoken Mawatari, President)

• Part I
• Fifty Years of the Society for the History of Economic Thought (Hiroji Nakamura, Ex-President)

• Part II
• I    Rules and Regulations
• II   Directors, Offices and other Officers
• III  Trend and Changes in Number of Members
• IV   Subscriptions and Finance (1999)
• V    List of Papers read before the Annual Meetings
• VI   List of Common and Forum Themes discussed at the Annual Meetings
• VII  List of Universities where the Annual Meetings were held
• VIII Public Lectures and International Meetings
• IX   Special Lectures by Foreign Scholars
• X    Publications
• XI   List of Special Issues, Survey and other Articles in Annals (formerly The Annual Bulletin) of the SHET
• XII  Proclamations and Appeals
• XIII Members sent to the International Conferences
• XIV  Branch Activities
• Name Index

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Economic Thought and Modernization in Japan

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, 205pages. Price 49.95 Pounds.

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

History of Economic Thought: Surveys and Problems, in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the society, Kyushu University Press, 1992. (in Japanese)

Economics in Japan: The Track of the Economic Thinking of the Japanese, Toyo Keizai Shinpo-sha, 1984. (in Japanese)

The Formation of the Wealth of Nations: Essays in Commemoration of the Bicentenary of its Publication, Iwanami Shoten, 1976. (in Japanese)

The Formation of Das Kapital: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of Volume One, Iwanami Shoten, 1967. (in Japanese)

Booklets

• The Study of the History of Economic Thought in Japan: Ten Years of the Society for the History of Economic Thought, 1961. (in Japanese)
• Thirty Years of the Society for the History of Economic Thought, 1980. (in Japanese)

Reprint of Economic Classics

• The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, edited by C. H. Hull, 1899, 2 vols., (May 1955)
• James Steuart, An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, 1767, 1st edition, 2 vols., (November 1957)
• Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1822 edition, (Works), with Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL. D. by Dugald Stewart. (November 1959)

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