Japanese Institutionalist Post-Keynesians Revisited

Hiroyasu Uemura is an emeritus professor at Yokohama National University in Japan. He has developed his research in the field of comparative institutional analysis and macroeconomic analysis from the perspective of the régulation theory, i.e. a research program which analyzes how economic institutions evolve in historical processes and defines diverse types of contemporary capitalism. He has also developed the theoretical and empirical analyses based on post-Keynesian theories. He has published many books and articles. These include R. Boyer, H. Uemura and A. Isogai eds. Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms, Routledge, 2012;  R. Boyer, H. Uemura, T. Yamada and L. Song eds. Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms: Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia, Springer, 2018. 

Chapter 1. Introduction: Inheritance from Marx, Keynes, and Institutionalism .- Chapter 2. Eiich Sugimoto’s Creative Rivalry in “Modern Economics” and the Present State of Economics.- Chapter 3. Shigeto Tsuru’s “Institutionalism in the Broad Sense” and Theories of Contemporary Capitalism Constructed by Yoshihiro Takasuka and Shigenobu Kishimoto.- Chapter 4. Yoshikazu Miyazaki and Mitsuharu Itoh: Research on Keynes and Contemporary Capitalism.- Chapter 5. Hirofumi Uzawa and Tsuneo Ishikawa: Institutionalism, Macroeconomic Analysis, and Social Common Capital.- Chapter 6. Social Preference and Civil Society in the Institutional Analysis of Capitalisms: Integrating Samuel Bowles’ The Moral Economy and Robert Boyer’s Régulation Theory.

“The book provides a birds’-eye view of the intellectual heritages of the JIPKs. … The book is reminiscent of the older generation to retrospect what shaped their thoughts, whereas more useful for the younger generation to get new inspiration to advance their studies. I have also been inspired by the economists in this book as a researcher, and I was inspired by them again as a reader.” (Hiroshi Nishi, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Vol. 20 (1), 2023)