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Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi City,
Tokyo 186-8603, JAPAN
Tel
+81 42 580 8327
Fax
+81 42 580 8333
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| NISHIZAWA,Tamotsu |
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| Professor / Comparative Economic Systems |
Specialization History of Economic Thought
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| Education |
| 1974 |
B.A. (Commerce) Chuo University |
| 1979 |
M.A. (Social Studies) Hitotsubashi University |
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| Positions held |
| 1983 |
Research Associate, Hitotsubashi University |
| 1985 |
Lecturer, Osaka City University |
| 1990 |
Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University |
| 1993 |
Professor, Hitotsubashi University |
| 2007--2011 |
Director of the Institute, Institute of Economic Research,
Hitotsubashi
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| Previous research |
| My research field is the history of economic thought, with particular emphasis on Great Britain. Recently, I have focused on the Birmingham School of the first half of the 19th century and, based on archival work, have tried to show how it sought to assert itself vis-à-vis the economic policy ideas of the Manchester School. Following this, may research concentrated on the period from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. In a number of published articles I examined the systematization of economics and the ideas of the English Historical School and, as an extension of these studies, conducted a comparison of managers’ education in Japan and Great Britain. In addition, I am continuing research on Alfred Marshall and W. J. Ashley and compare their viewpoints on industrial and firm organization, industrialists and managers in relation to the stagnation of the British economy and issues surrounding industrial leadership. |
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| Current research projects |
| At present, in addition to expanding on my work on the economic thought of Marshall and the Historical School, I am conducting research on the founding period of welfare economics and the welfare state, concentrating on the writings of Marshall, Pigou, Hobson and Tokuzo Fukuda from Japan. In particular, I am striving to elucidate the influence of Oxford idealism on research in welfare economics before Robbins and the conceptual foundation of early welfare economics and the welfare state. Moreover, I am revising the unpublished fourth volume on economic and social progress and Marshall and his theories on industrial economics and industrial organization in collaboration with Raffaelli (Pisa) and others from Italy. This forms part of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research project on the “Cambridge School of Economics,” of which I am the leader. |
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| ◎Key words |
economic thought, Marshall, Historical School, welfare economics, welfare state, industrial economics. |
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