Japanese Institutionalist Post-Keynesians Revisited: Inheritance from Marx, Keynes and Institutionalism
Hiroyasu Uemura
Mar 2023 · Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science Book 29 · Springer Nature
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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.
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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