The Economic Development of Modern Japan

The Selected Essays of Shigeto Tsuru, Volume II

Economists of the Twentieth Century series

末Shigeto鹤。以前公关ofessor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University and Chairman of Village Shonan Inc., Japan

Japan’s emergence as a modern state in the middle of the nineteenth century was a unique socio-political event. The accompanying economic development – achieved without tariff autonomy and with practically no injection of foreign capital – was certainly no less remarkable. A major portion of this important volume discusses how this transformation was accomplished.

‘Shigeto Tsuru has been the bridge between mainstream economics and Japanese Marxist thought. Ten years at Harvard and a key player in the post-war MacArthur Administration, he was Schumpeter’s personal assistant and a recognized expert on Keynes and Marx. Tsuru’s collected papers are a testament no one interested in Japanese intellectuals should miss.’
– Paul A. Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US