Masashi Izumo

Kanagawa University · Department of Economics

It was only after the Meiji Restoration in the mid-nineteenth century that various kinds of economic thought, including that of Ricardo, came to disseminate in Japan. To know such a particular historical process may be instrumental in understanding the actual state of Ricardo studies in Japan. This chapter attempts to introduce to foreign readers h...

This introduction to the book sums up the main results developed in the different chapters and emphasises the basic features of the reception of Malthus’s works and ideas in Europe, America and Japan. In particular, it stresses the importance of the French editions in this reception in Continental Europe, the neglect of Malthus’s theological views,...

It is always fascinating to see how the writings and ideas of authors — be they philosophers or scientists — are progressively taken into account, discussed, accepted or rejected in their own countries according to various historical intellectual circumstances. It is even more interesting to study how these writings and ideas cross borders and spre...

"This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo's writings in different languages. The book highlights the similarities and differences between them. This book seeks to delineate the diffusion of Ricardo's theory in various parts of Europe and Japan. While there may have been case st...