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 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

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

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century Japan saw the creation, development, and apparent disappearance of the field of natural history, or "ho