Modern Japanese Economic Thought
Modern Japanese Economic Thought Since the mid-19th century, Japan has made remarkable strides in industrialization. Further, the book explores new liberalism (Ishibashi Tanzan, Fukuda Tokuzo) and…
Specifikacia Modern Japanese Economic Thought
Modern Japanese Economic Thought
Since the mid-19th century, Japan has made remarkable strides in industrialization. Further, the book explores new liberalism (Ishibashi Tanzan, Fukuda Tokuzo) and Marxism (Yamada Moritaro, Uno Kozo) in the 1920s and 1930s. Beginning with the economic vision of Miura Baien in the 18th century, and employing a detailed comparison with the West, this book delves into the economic thought of the scholars who have played a pivotal role in Japan's modernization process.The author takes Fukuzawa Yukichi's theory of 'civilization' as the standard measure of Japan's modernization and compares it with differing visions from various critics whose research focused on rural poverty and social problems, such as Maeda Masana, early socialists, Yanagita Kunio and Kawakami Hajime.
After discussing the dilemmas faced by economists during wartime (Takata Yasuma, Ryu Shintaro, Shibata Kei), the