Shigeto Tsuru
Shigeto Tsuru (都留 重人, Tsuru Shigeto, March 6, 1912 – February 5, 2006) was a prominent Japanese politician and economist.[1] He was widely honoured for his scholarship (including the Presidency of the International Economic Association and received honorary degrees including one of two ever given to a Japanese by Harvard University.[2] Well recognized as a principal intellectual leader and influence in Japan itself, Professor Shigeto Tsuru was known to many in the west for his extensive,if seemingly unorthodox,work in macroeconomic theory.[3]
Early life
Born in 1912, the son of a Nagoya engineer-industrialist. While in high school in Tokyo he became politically involved in 1929–30, as a student leader in the "Anti-Imperialist Leagues", activities against the Japanese military then in the early stages of aggression towards China. He was imprisoned for several months. Expelled from high school, he was sent abroad to America to complete his education. His undergraduate work was at Lawrence College and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.[2]His major academic studies centered around social Psychology and Philosophy[4] His first major publication in a professional journal was on the subject of The Meaning of Meaning in 1932.In his junior year he transferred to Harvard where he took his baccalaureate degree 1935 and his doctorate 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he became one of the recognized leading intellectual leaders of the graduate student elite of the time like,Paul Samuelson,Richard Goodwin,Robert Bryce,Robert Triffin, Abram Bergson,John Kenneth Galbraith,Alan Sweezy, Paul Sweezy,Wolfgang Stolper,Richard A.Musgrave, Evsey Domar,James Tobin,Joe S.Bain and Robert Solow.[5]
Later life
His pre-second World War published works in Marxian economic theory were regarded as particularly original and important an example being "On Reproduction Schemes" appearing in the appendix to Paul Sweezy's The Theory of Capitalist Development,1942,Schumpeter,to whose guidance Tsuru owned a great deal discussed in his History of Economic Analysis,the relation between Marx and Quesnay and wrote that on this subject" the interested reader finds all he needs in the appendix to sweezy's volume,by Shigeto Tsuru""Tsuru was actually one of the leaders in the founding of Science & Society"-A Marxian Quarterly.[6]
A prominent cousin of his was Kiso Tsuru, a doctor and humanitarian.[7][full citation needed]
Bibliography
- "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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Japan's Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond,editor's note,by Mark Perlman
- ^ Capitalism creat and defeat by Mark Perlman
- ^ Capitalism creat and defeat by Mark Perlman
- ^ Capitalisim creat and defeat by Mark Perlman
- ^ Capitalisim create and destroy by Mark Perlman
- ^ Asashi Shimbun Japanese news.
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