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Robert Chapeskie Shin Kubo Naoki Mastuyama

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.63, no.1, pp.23-58, 2021 (Released:2022-01-13)

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渡辺 輝雄 Robert Chapeskie 米田 昇平

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.61, no.2, pp.40-77, 2020 (Released:2020-02-26)

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高島 善哉 星野 彰男 Robert Chapeskie

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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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.

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菱山 泉 宮本 順介 Robert Chapeskie

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.60, no.2, pp.42-96, 2019 (Released:2019-09-04)

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Introduction by Junsuke Miyamoto In 1956 Izumi Hishiyama and Yoshihiro Taguchi translated two essays by Piero Sraffa, ʻSulle relazioni fra costo e quantità prodottaʼ (1925) and ʻThe Laws of Returns under Competitive Conditionsʼ (1926), and published them, with the addition of commentary by Hishiyama, as Keizaigaku ni okeru Koten to Kindai-Shinkotengakuha no Kentō to Dokusenriron no Tenkai (The Classical and the Modern in Economics: The Examination of the Neoclassical School and the Development of Monopoly Theory, Tokyo: Yuhikaku) in the same year. It is the commentary by Hishiyama included in this book, ʻSraffaʼs Position in the History of Economic Thought and the Significance of his Study of Ricardo,ʼ that has been translated into English here. Izumi Hishiyama (1923-2007) began his work as a scholar with the study of François Quesnayʼs tableau économique, and the results of these efforts were brought together in ʻThe Tableau Économique of Quesnay: Its Analysis, Recon-struction and Applicationʼ (Kyoto University Economic Review, April 1960). This work received international acclaim as the first thoroughgoing attempt at a dynamic treatment of the tableau économique model. Later, Hishiyama en-countered Sraffaʼs essay ʻSulle relazioni fra costo e quantità prodotta,ʼ which made a profound impression on him, and through the intermediary of Sraffa developed an interest in classical school economics centred on David Ricardo, on the one hand, and the economics of Alfred Marshall and the Cambridge school, on the other. On the basis of an approach that involved reviving the ideas of the classical school in modern economics, Hishiyama presented a large amount of excellent research ranging from the economics of the classical school to the economics of his day. He is renowned in particular as a pioneer of Sraffian economics in Japan, and in 1962 published, together with Hiroshi Yamashita as his co-translator, a groundbreaking Japanese translation of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory (1960), one of Sraffaʼs most important works. In 1993 he published Sraffa Keizaigaku no Gendaiteki Hyōka (A Modern Evaluation of Sraffian Economics, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press), a text that can be described as one of his most significant works, in which he considered Sraffaʼs economics from a multi-layered perspective and attempted to establish his contribution to modern economics.

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杉原 四郎 松井 名津 橋本 昭一 Robert Chapeskie

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.60, no.1, pp.100-136, 2018 (Released:2019-09-03)

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Introduction by Shoichi Hashimoto Shiro Sugiharaʼs “Nature, Human Beings, and Labour,” translated here into Eng-lish, was originally published in Japanese in J. S. Miru to Gendai (J. S. Mill and the Present Day), 1980, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, and reprinted in Volume 2, 2003, of The Works of Shiro Sugihara, 4 Volumes, 2003-, Tokyo: Fujiwara Sho-ten. Shiro Sugihara (1920-2009) began his study of the history of economic thought with a comparison of Karl Marx and J. S. Mill. While he does not ex-plicitly mention it in any of his writings, in this he may have been influenced by his mentor, Kei Shibata (1902-1986). Shibata had been attempting to further develop Marxʼs theory of reproduction using the methods of general equilibrium theory. While carefully tracing the process of development of Marxʼs economic thought, by explicating Marxʼs crit-icism of Mill Sugihara played a major role in the post-war Japanese movement to re-evaluate Mill, who had historically received only low appraisal. Sugihara presented Millʼs stance of engaging with contemporary economic issues in a positive light, an approach that is given full expression in the essay translated here. While Japanese readers would not require any explanation regarding Sawako Ariyoshi (1931-1984), the novelist who appears at the start of the es-say, she was a writer who raised new social issues such as synthetic pollution, food damage, issues related to the elderly, and so on, that have since become common knowledge, posing them to society in a series of works written in rapid succession that all went on to become bestsellers. As a result of the nature of her writing she was ignored by various literary awards.

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羽鳥 卓也 千賀 重義 Robert Chapeskie

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.59, no.2, pp.118-161, 2018 (Released:2019-09-02)

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1

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Introduction by Ken Mizuta and Shigeyoshi Senga The text of which this is a translation is Chapter 4 of Takuya Hatori (1922-2012)ʼs Kotenha Keizaigaku no Kihon Mondai (The Fundamental Question of Classical Economics), Tokyo: Miraisha, 1972. It had originally been published as an article with the same Japanese title, but Hatori gave it the slightly different English title ʻRicardoʼs theory of value and distribution in his Essay on Profitsʼ in Fukushima Universityʼs Sho―gaku Ronsyu― (The Journal of Commerce, Eco-nomics and Economic History), 34 (3), 91-151, 1965, and then added some re-visions, in particular a ʻtotal rewriteʼ of Section 5, when it was included in the book cited above. Before the publication of the article just noted, Hatori had presented a report entitled ʻEarly Ricardoʼs theories on distributionʼ at the 29th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought held in September 1965 at the Otaru University of Commerce, and ac-cording to the postscript of the original article ʻin substance this included the content of this text up to Section 4.ʼ Hatori states that he wrote the article after having given his presentation and considered the criticisms it elicited. Hatori began his academic work in the field of Japanese economic history but later shifted his region of research to the broad range of economic thought, from figures such as John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the era of the civil revolution to classical economists in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Above all, he devoted his energies to study of British classical econo-mists like Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo. Hatori particularly concentrated his efforts on the examination of Ricardoʼs economics.

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服部 正治 Robert Chapeskie 小林 昇

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.59, no.1, pp.63-90, 2017 (Released:2019-09-01)

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Introduction by Masaharu Hattori The late Noboru Kobayashiʼs “Historical Critique in Wealth of Nations: A Per-spective on Books III and IV,” translated here into English, was originally pub-lished in Japanese in Fukushima Universityʼs Shōgaku Ronsyū (The Journal of Commerce, Economics and Economic History), Vol. 41, No. 5, 1973, and re-printed in Volume 2, which is indicated as 《II》 in this translation, 1976, of The Works of Kobayashi Noboru on the History of Economic Thought, 11 Volumes, 1976-1989, Tokyo: Miraisha. The “Historical Critique” of the title of this article has a double meaning when it comes to its content. In one sense, it refers to Smithʼs criticism of history that goes against the natural progress of opulence and has been seen in Europe “after the fall of the Roman Empire” that is de-scribed in Book III of Wealth of Nations. In another sense, it refers to Kobaya-shiʼs criticism of the defect inherent in Smithʼs historical understanding. When it comes to the latter, Smith did not sufficiently recognize the historical fact that the mercantilist protectionism of the Government of the civil revolutions (par-ticularly the Glorious Revolution) in Britain protected and fostered the devel-opment of domestic industrial capital, bringing about the bi-polar separation of independent producers that advanced the development of the primitive accumu-lation of capital and eventually led to the establishment of the capitalist system. Kobayashiʼs historical critique can thus be summarized as pointing out Smithʼs flawed understanding of the historical significance of mercantilism.

著者

山田 鋭夫 Robert Chapeskie

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The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

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経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

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vol.58, no.2, pp.1-23, 2017 (Released:2019-08-31)

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3

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Introduction by Toshio Yamada This text was originally a chapter in Yoshihiko Uchidaʼs (1913-1989) first book, The Birth of Economic Science (hereafter referred to as “Birth”), Tokyo: Mirai-sha Publishers, 1953, and was later included in Collected Works of Yoshi-hiko Uchida, vol. 1, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 1989. Birth was pub-lished eight years after Japanʼs defeat in World War II, in the era of chaos and hope that followed this conflict. It has been widely read by generations of social scientists, and is now considered one of the greatest masterpieces in the study of Adam Smith in Japan. Following its somewhat lengthy “Introduction,” Uchidaʼs Birth is construct-ed in two parts: Part One, “The Birth of Economic Science: Wealth of Nations as a Critique of the Old Imperial System” and Part Two, “Analysis of the Sys-tem of Wealth of Nations.” In Part One, Uchida depicts the birth of economic science in Smith not as an extension of political economy after the mercantile system but rather as a critical response to the examination of civil society found in thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume and above all Jean-Jacques Rous-seau, thus bringing into sharp relief Adam Smith as a thinker who criticized mercantilist “modernization from above.” In Part Two, starting with an examina-tion of Smithʼs concept of civil society and theory of the division of labor, Uchi-da analyzes his theories of value, surplus value, and capital accumulation and reproduction by contrasting them with those of Karl Marx. For a more detailed outline of Birth, see Sakamoto (2017).