Jump to content

Shigeto Tsuru

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Toshito (talk | contribs) at 04:48, 7 March 2013. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

SHIGETO TSURU (都留 重人, Tsuru Shigeto, March 6, 1912 – February 5, 2006) was a prominent Japanese political economist.[1]

EARLY CHILDHOOD:

Born in 1912 the son of a Nagoya engineer-industrialist,when Tsuru went to high school in Tokyo,while there he became politically involved in 1929 as a student leader of the Anti-"Imperialist League" activities against the Japanese military,then in the early stage of aggression towards China.For his troubles,he was arrested and detained for several months. Afterwards having been expelled from his high school,he was sent by his wise if exasperated father abroad to America to complete his education.His undergraduate work was at an excellent if small,college(Lawrence),Wisconsin.As well as at the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the summer sessions.

IMPORTANT YEARS Tsuru took his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1940. Tsuru worked in the Foreign Ministry as economic advisor to the Economic and Scientific Section of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, and during the Socialist coalition government of 1947-1948 he was Vice Minister of the Economic Stabilization Board (at the age of 35). After the conservative electoral ascendancy he became the president of Hitotsubashi University and served as editorial adviser at the Asahi Shimbun. In 1985, receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University.

A prominent cousin of his was Kiso Tsuru, a doctor and humanitarian who lived in Mexico most of his life.[2]

Works

  • "On Reproduction Schemes", 1942, in Paul Sweezy, Theory of Capitalist Development
  • Has Capitalism Changed?: An International Symposium on the Nature of Contemporary Capitalism, (Iwanami, 1961).
  • Environmental Disruption: Proceedings of International Symposium, March, 1970, Tokyo, (International Social Science Council, 1970).
  • Growth and Resources Problems Related to Japan: Proceedings of Session VI of the Fifth Congress of the International Economic Association held in Tokyo, Japan, (Macmillan, 1978).
  • The political economy of the environment: The case of Japan. London : Athlone, 1999.
  • Towards a New Political Economy, 1976.
  • Institutional Economics Revisited, 1993
  • Japan's Capitalism: Creative defeat and beyond, 1993

References

  1. ^ Suzumura, Kotaro. "Obituary - Shigeto Tsuru: life work and legacy". European Journal of the History of Economic Thought; Dec 2006, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p613-620, 8p.
  2. ^ Kiso Tsuru on Wikipedia

Template:Persondata

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shigeto_Tsuru&oldid=542516790"