Tameyuki Amano on Trade and Technological Progress

This open access book is a biography of Tameyuki Amano (18611938), who was the first Japanese economist. He was also an educator, one of the first elected Diet members, and one of the founders of the Tokyo Senmon College (now Waseda University). Moreover, as editor of the Oriental Economist (Toyo Keizai Shimpo), he was at the center of economic information and communication through his work that involved collecting economic and financial data and connecting Japanese economists and businesspeople. Amano wrote notable byline editorials on taxation, international relations and trade, monetary standards, banking, and stock exchange for almost every issue in the period 18951907.

Amano spent his boyhood in Karatsu, on the northern shore of Kyushu, where the daimyos (lords) were associated with the Nagasaki surveillance mission. During the period of National Seclusion, Dejima in Nagasaki was uniquely permitted to maintain diplomatic relations with the Dutch; it functioned as a tightly controlled foreign trading post as well as a surveillance and intelligence system for the Tokugawa government. At Tokyo University, Amano attended lectures by Ernest Fenollosa on political economy, based on John Stuart Mill, and on the history of Western philosophy, based on Albert Schwegler. Amano later translated J. Laurence Laughlin's 1884 abridged edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and John Neville Keynes's Scope and Method of Political Economy (1891).

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Explores how the first Japanese economist studied political economy and how he developed economics Discusses the minimal role of the government for the promotion of commerce Discusses how the Journal Oriental Economist effectively promoted economic policy debate in Japan

Autorentext

Aiko Ikeo has been studying the history of Japanese economics and economic thought for more than three decades, and the history of international economic policy in East Asia for more than two decades. She is a professor of economics at Waseda University, Tokyo, from April 2000. She edited Japanese Economics and Economists since 1945 (Routledge, 2000) and Economic Development in Twentieth Century East Asia (Routledge, 1997). She published A History of Economic Science in Japan (Routledge, 2014) and Globalization Reconsidered (in Japanese, Soseisha, 2017). She wrote “Japanese Women’s Economics, 1818–2005” for The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economics Thought edited by Kirsten Madden and Robert W. Dimand (Routledge, 2018). Her biography titled Tameyuki Amano: The First Economist in Japan (in Japanese) was published by Minerva Publishing (Kyoto) in 2023.

Inhalt

Preface to the English edition.- Preface to the Japanese Original Edition.- A History of Karatsu and Tameyuki Amano.- Political Economy in English.- A Glance Toward Japan's Traditions.- Tameyuki Amano's Theory of Political Economy.- The Principles of Commercial Legislation (1886).- The Oriental Economist (Toyo Keizai Shimpo) and Economic Policies.- Financial Policies and Human Capital Training.- The Revival of Tameyuki Amano.- Afterword.- Appendix 1: List of Tameyuki Amano's Publications, Textbooks and Instructions.- Appendix 2: Periodicals.- Timeline of Tameyuki Amano.