By throwing light on economic thought in the period of the Japanese Enlightenment, this book will make clear what led to the institutionalization of business an

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

This volume deepens and revises our understanding of early-modern Japan by examining connections between economic thought and policy. It also engages issues of

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