This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capita

Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already devel

This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan. Significantly, it offers both a detailed study of econ

Japanese scholars of economics present nine contributions addressing the development of economic thought and modernization in Japan, primarily over the last 150

This newly revised, clearly-presented text looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II. Working within a framework bas