Shigeto Tsuru
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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 honored for his scholarship, including the Presidency of the International Economic Association. He received several honorary degrees, including one of two that were ever given to a Japanese citizen by Harvard University.[2][page needed]
Early life
[edit]He was born in 1912, in Nagoya,Japan to Iyo Shida and Nobuo Tsuru an industrial Engineer. He also had 3 sisters,Keiko,Sumiko,and Hisako.The Asahi Shimbun
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. His undergraduate work was at Lawrence College and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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).
- Tsuru, Shigeto (1982), "The significance of Marxian political economy in the present-day world", in Meek, Ronald (author); Bradley, Ian C.; Howard, Michael C. (eds.), Classical and Marxian political economy: essays in honour of Ronald L. Meek, London: Macmillan, pp. 276–290, ISBN 9780333321997.
((citation)):|editor-first1=has generic name (help) - 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
[edit]- ^ 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. Archived 2009-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tsuru, Shigeto (1996). Japan's Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521576215.
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