History of Economic Science in Japan

Aiko Ikeo is a historian of Japanese economics and economic thought. She has been working on the history of economic science and the internationalization of economics in the twentieth century with a focus on the Japanese contributions to the international community for two decades. Recently she has become interested in the economics of Tameyuki Amano (1861–1938) and the scientific thinking of Sontoku Ninomiya (1787-1856). She published Japanese books including Akamatsu Kaname (Nihonkeizaihyoronsha, 2008), A History of Economics in Japan (Nagoya University Press, 2006) and The Network of Economists in the Twentieth Century (Yuhikaku, 1994). She has edited Economic Development in Twentieth Century East Asia (Routledge, 1997) and Japanese Economics and Economists since 1945 (Routledge, 1999).

"Professor Ikeo provides new insights into Japanese economics and economy, and links them with international milieux by elaborating little-known Japanese contributions to the development of general equilibrium theory, Keynesian economics, and modern and early modern economic ideas. The book is best suitable for postgraduates and scholars, as well as general readers, who are eager to know Japanese competency in intellectual and technological areas." — Atsushi Komine, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Ryukoku University, Japan

• 1. Introduction Part I 2. The Formation of the International Forum for Economists 3. Monetary Economics and Policy, 1868--1936 4. Neoclassical Economics in Japan 5. General Equilibrium Theory (1): Stability Analysis 6. General Equilibrium Theory (2): the Existence Question 7. A History of Japanese Developments in Econometrics Part II 8. Tameyuki Amano and the Teaching of Sontoku Ninomiya 9. From the Economics of Keynes to Keynesian Economics 10. Marin Bronfenbrenner and the Reconstruction of the Japanese Economy