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Japanese Institutionalist Post-Keynesians Revisited

Inheritance from Marx, Keynes and Institutionalism

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Authors:
  1. Hiroyasu Uemura

    1. Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama City, Japan

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  • Provides a systematic analysis of the academic achievements of Japanese institutionalist post-Keynesians
  • Focuses on the total image of the economy in Japanese economists’ heritage from Keynes, Marx, and institutionalism
  • Proposes institutional economics in the 21st century, reconsidering Japanese institutionalist post-Keynesians

Part of the book series: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science (EESCS, volume 29)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Inheritance from Marx, Keynes, and Institutionalism

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 1-10

  3. Eiichi Sugimoto’s Creative Rivalry in “Modern Economics” and the Present State of Economics

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 11-20

  4. Shigeto Tsuru’s “Institutionalism in the Broad Sense” and Theories of Contemporary Capitalism Constructed by Yoshihiro Takasuka and Shigenobu Kishimoto

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 21-40

  5. Yoshikazu Miyazaki and Mitsuharu Itoh: Research on Keynes and Contemporary Capitalism

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 41-56

  6. Hirofumi Uzawa and Tsuneo Ishikawa: Institutionalism, Macroeconomic Analysis, and Social Common Capital

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 57-72

  7. Social Preference and Civil Society in the Institutional Analysis of Capitalisms: Integrating Samuel Bowles’ The Moral Economy and Robert Boyer’s Régulation Theory

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 73-95

  8. Institutional Economics in the Twenty-First Century Based on the Creative Rivalry among Post-Keynesian and Post-Marxian Theories

    • Hiroyasu Uemura
    Pages 97-133
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About this book

This is the first book that systematically considers the academic achievements of Japanese institutionalist post-Keynesian economists in the postwar period and argues that we can learn much from their intellectual heritage. Those Japanese economists include the world-renowned figures, Shigeto Tsuru and Hirofumi Uzawa, whose inheritance came from Keynes, Marx, and institutionalism.
 In the era of globalization after the 1990s, economic inequality and social divide have intensified all over the world. In this situation, the academic achievements of those economists in postwar Japan should be reconsidered for the aim of establishing a new political economy. With this perspective, the book looks at what we can learn from Japanese institutionalist post-Keynesian economists In particular, the essence of research work that each of them developed is identified, focusing on the total image of the economy for contemporary capitalism.
 Those economists benefited from the diverse legacies of Keynes, Marx, Kalecki and institutionalist economists such as Veblen and Galbraith. When their research is examined systematically, Japanese institutionalist post-Keynesians are commonly characterized as those who developed their institutional analysis of contemporary capitalism with in-depth theoretical and empirical studies, with the aim of establishing their own political economy as the moral science of civil society. These important features provide us with insightful implications for institutional economics in the 21st century.




 


Reviews

“The book provides a birds’-eye view of the intellectual heritages of the JIPKs. … The book is reminiscent of the older generation to retrospect what shaped their thoughts, whereas more useful for the younger generation to get new inspiration to advance their studies. I have also been inspired by the economists in this book as a researcher, and I was inspired by them again as a reader.” (Hiroshi Nishi, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Vol. 20 (1), 2023)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama City, Japan

    Hiroyasu Uemura

About the author

Hiroyasu Uemura is an emeritus professor at Yokohama National University in Japan. He has developed his research in the field of comparative institutional analysis and macroeconomic analysis from the perspective of the régulation theory, i.e. a research program which analyzes how economic institutions evolve in historical processes and defines diverse types of contemporary capitalism. He has also developed the theoretical and empirical analyses based on post-Keynesian theories. He has published many books and articles. These include R. Boyer, H. Uemura and A. Isogai eds. Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms, Routledge, 2012;  R. Boyer, H. Uemura, T. Yamada and L. Song eds. Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms: Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia, Springer, 2018. 


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