著者

逆井 孝仁 サカサイ タカヒト Takahito Sakasai

出版者

立教大学経済学研究会

雑誌

立教経済学研究 (ISSN:00355356)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.32, no.3, pp.p1-27, 1978-12

著者

逆井 孝仁 サカサイ タカヒト Takahito Sakasai

雑誌

立教經濟學研究

巻号頁・発行日

vol.32, no.3, pp.1-27, 1978-12

著者

逆井 孝仁

出版者

The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought

雑誌

経済学史学会年報 (ISSN:04534786)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, no.31, pp.1-13, 1993 (Released:2010-08-05)

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Banto Yamagata (1748-1821), a privileged Osaka merchant, spent his life during the period in which the Tokugawa regime entered a total structural crisis. As a rare rationalist who acquired universal reasoning from Confucian ideas, he proposed a system of economic thought (“keisei ron”) intended to promote a modern revival of the Confucian ideal politics “Jinsei” to overcome the crisis.He advanced a plan for an ideal Physiocratic peaceful state based on the principle of self-sufficiency (“jisan-jisoku”), challenging the currently dominant ideology of the mercantilist wealth-state, while excessively idealizing the existing order. He rationally grasped Japan's backwardness as compared to the mercantilist Western countries, and was seriously concerned that the mercantilist view of the national interest, which promoted outward expansion, would accelerate the external and internal crises.Thus we can see in his thinking, which emerged in the process of Japan's modernization, the possibility of rational Confucian economic thought.