Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan

by Gramlich-oka, Bettina; Smits, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9789004183834
• ISBN10: 9004183833
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capitalism. In discussing such topics as money and the state, freedom and control, national interest

Author Biography

Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Ph.D. (2006) in Japanese Studies, Tbingen University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Sophia University, Tokyo. She has published on shogunal trade regulations and women of the Tokugawa period, including Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825) (Brill, 2006). Gregory Smits, Ph.D. (1992) in History, University of Southern California, is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has published on the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake and the early modern Ryukyu Kingdom, including Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics (Hawai'i, 1999).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Foreword to the Volume	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
List of Maps	p. xix
List of Contributors	p. xxi
Introduction: The Autonomy of Market Activity and the Emergence of Keizai Thought	p. 1
Money and the State: Medieval Precursors of the Early Modern Economy	p. 21
Economic Thought Concerning Freedom and Control	p. 47
Guiding Horses with Rotten Reins: Economic Thought in the Eighteenth-Century Kingdom of Ryukyu	p. 67
The Shift to Domestic Sugar and the Ideology of 'The National Interest'	p. 89
A Domain Doctor and Shogunal Policies	p. 111
The Economic Thought of Shoji Koki and the Tenpo Reforms in Saga Domain	p. 157
Confucian Banking: The Community Granary (Shaso) in Rhetoric and Practice	p. 179
From Tokugawa to Meiji: The Economic Thought of a Local Entrepreneur in the Early Meiji Era	p. 205
Policy Space, Polarities, and Regimes	p. 217
Glossary	p. 251
References	p. 261
Index	p. 287
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