著者

高島 善哉 星野 彰男 Robert Chapeskie

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.61, no.1, pp.66-91, 2019 (Released:2019-10-01)

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Introduction by Akio Hoshino Zenya Takashima (1904-90)ʼs ʻThe Wealth of Nations and the System of Productive Powers,ʼ which has been translated into English here, is Chapter 5 of Part 2, “Adam Smith and the Problem of Civil Society,” in The Fundamental Problem of Economic Sociology-Smith and List as Economic Sociologists-, Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha, 1941 (The Works of Zenya Takashima, vol. 2, 1997, Tokyo). It was written in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) and directly before Japanʼs involvement in the Second World War (1941-45), a period during which the military system severely suppressed both academic inquiry and the general population. In modern Japan (1868- ), there was a particular emphasis on the introduction of German institutions and culture, and Friedrich Listʼs political economy and its national policy of productive powers were therefore welcomed. This work of Takashimaʼs called into question the prevailing trends at the time, and managed to achieve publication in spite of the severe censorship to which such texts were subjected. Because it talked about “Smith as List” and “List as Smith,” the censors seem not to have been able to understand its central critique. Having been written under such circumstances, its prose became very complicated and difficult, but it was covertly held in high regard. It has been said that many of its readers understood its ironic implication, and that some even took it to be a cover for Marxism. Its core chapter that regards Smithʼs moral philosophy as of greatest importance (Chapter 2: ʻThree Worlds in Smithʼ) has already been translated into English (Adam Smith: Critical Responses, vol. 5, edited by Hiroshi Mizuta, Routledge, 2000). The theme of Chapter 5 is solely Smithʼs economic theory.

著者

高島 善哉

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.21, no.21, pp.18-20, 1983 (Released:2010-08-05)

著者

高島 善哉

出版者

一橋大学

雑誌

一橋論叢 (ISSN:00182818)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, no.5, pp.572-597, 1950-11-01

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