- 著者
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西岡 幹雄
- 出版者
- The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought
- 雑誌
- 経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.52, no.1, pp.1-19, 2010 (Released:2019-08-20)
- 被引用文献数
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1
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Abstract:
Dazai Shundai (1680―1747) associated the problem of the interest in people’s welfare
by creating useful means for which they enriched their lives with institutionalization
processes of political economy in the early eighteenth-century Japan. He
meant that the purpose of public welfare-to cause stability and prosperity of the
community and people’s lives in general-was established as a part of practical
learning, through institutionalization. This offered a practical approach to rationality.
Dazai linked “the road to public welfare by interests” with the management of the
state and human relief. When he attempted to discuss the problem of the ‘the law of
joheiso’ as an institutional framework, on the basis of the theme of public welfare of
people by interest, his philosophy of political economy contained a systematic design
for welfare and economy. This included the manner in which a solution that loses
touch with private interests is able to adjust “the world and the nation” as external
public interests.
However, Dazai’s conclusion was unable to absorb in a unilateral manner the
frame cost in order to advance institutionalization, and would overload public welfare.
Before creating an institutional design, what can morality in the social climate
constitute in the institutional performance among incentive structures? The activation,
based on moral recognition, widely needed the foundation of the institutional
design for public welfare and its spillover effect. In this sense, Dazai’s image of humankind
was that of an uncooperative situation, which was due to his belief that people
were unable to be endogenous in their learning function.
JEL classification numbers: B 11, H 11, N 35.