Shinzo Koizumi (1888-1966): A Japanese Economist’s Encounter with the West

Yukihiro Ikeda

History of Economics Review, 2006, vol. 44, issue 1, 39-49

Abstract: Among both academics and the general public, especially those of the older generation, Shinzo Koizumi (1888-1966) remains well known as a former president of Keio University and tutor of the future Japanese Emperor. A prolific writer of twenty-six volumes, Koizumi played important roles in the fields of both Japanese liberalism and conservatism after the Second World War. On the academic scene, he translated David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, and William Stanley Jevons’s Theory of Political Economy, into Japanese, contributing substantially to the introduction of classical and modern economics to Japan. He also had famous debates with Japanese Marxists on the reliability of Marx’s value theory. Although Koizumi is an important figure in the history of Japanese economic thought, his own economics, as well as the influence upon him of Western economic thought, have yet to be scrutinised. Drawing chiefly upon Koizumi’s newly published early diary as an historical resource, I examine his life abroad in Britain and Europe from 1912 to 1916, with special reference to Western influences he encountered. My main concerns are the scholars he met, the books he read, and the lectures he attended during his stay. At the same time, I shall try to describe a young Japanese scholar’s intellectual but enjoyable experience of living in Western countries.

Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18386318.2006.11681228 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rherxx:v:44:y:2006:i:1:p:39-49

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rher20

DOI: 10.1080/18386318.2006.11681228

Access Statistics for this article

History of Economics Review is currently edited by John Harry Bloch and John Hawkins

More articles in History of Economics Review from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().