European Society for the History of Economic Thought

The Dissemination of Economic Ideas

2nd ESHET-JSHET meeting
21-22 March 2009 Tokyo and 24 March 2009 Kyoto, Japan

The Dissemination of Economic Ideas

2nd ESHET-JSHET meeting
21-22 March 2009 Tokyo and 24 March 2009 Kyoto, Japan

The Dissemination of Economic Ideas

conference - Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan


The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) in cooperation with the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) organizes a joint conference on

The Dissemination of Economic Ideas

21-22 March 2009, Tokyo
and
24 March 2009, Kyoto, Japan.

While there exist several valuable studies of aspects of the dissemination and further development of economic ideas and theories at least since the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1867, if not before, a comprehensive account of the rich flow of ideas between and within Europe, Japan and the rest of the world is not yet available. The conference aims at

– investigating how economic ideas developed and spread across national borders (within Europe, Asia, and the US);

– studying the implications of the novel ideas with respect to the ways in which certain economic and social problems were perceived;

– investigating the policies that were derived from the new perspectives assumed and tools adopted;

– studying the impact of the new ideas on the formation of institutions;

– elaborating these aspects in particular with regard to the age of enlightenment, historicism and the interwar period.

While in the past Japan was first and foremost an importer of ideas coming from the West and especially Europe and its Western offshoots, in more recent times things have changed. It would suffice to recall the names of major Japanese economists who had an important impact on recent developments in economics. Hence there is a substantial intellectual cross-breeding taking place right now. The conference aims at covering also this aspect of the dissemination of ideas and welcomes papers dealing with the contributions of major Japanese scholars and the absorption of their ideas in Europe and elsewhere.

Proposals of papers plus abstracts of no more than 800 words each are to be submitted electronically by 31 August 2008 to Tamotsu Nishizawa (nisizawa@ier.hit-u.ac.jp) and Heinz D. Kurz (heinz.kurz@uni-graz.at). Applicants will be informed about a decision concerning the acceptance of the paper by 30 September, 2008. First versions of accepted papers will have to be submitted in full by 31 December, 2008.

Scientific Committee:

JSHET: Yasunori Fukagai (Yokohama National Univ.), Masaharu Hattori (Rikkyo Univ.), Keiko Kurita (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.), Tamotsu Nishizawa (Hitotsubashi Univ.), Gentaro Seki (Kyushu Univ.), Tetsuo Taka (Kyushu Industrial Univ.)
ESHET: Richard Arena (Nice), Richard van den Berg (Kingston-upon-Thames), Harald Hagemann (Stuttgart-Hohenheim), Heinz D. Kurz (Graz), Cristina Marcuzzo (Rome), Annalisa Rosselli (Rome).

Organizers: JSHET and ESHET