From a Reformist Professor to a "Mouthpiece" for Capital

Tsunao Miyajima in an International Context

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4298307
AutoresKubo (0000-0002-4634-9094, Kwansei Gakuin University, autor de correspondencia), Shin Kubo (School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, 662–8501, Japan; by email: [email protected].)
Año2022
Volumen54
Número2
Páginas291-327
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182702-9699068
OpenAlexW4213375632
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

Tsunao Miyajima (1884-1965), qua economist, has gone unsung among historians of economics; however, his intellectual trajectory merits review in an international context. From the early 1910s to the middle of the1920s, he advocated the labor cause and social reform as a professor in Tokyo and Osaka. However, he converted his stance to its antithesis between the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he was acting as chief of the permanent Japanese employers' delegation to the International Labour Organization in Geneva. Observations on his volte-face, placed in the context of relations with famed economists at the time-such as Émile Waxweiler, Charles Gide, John Bates Clark, and Gustav Cassel-provide insight to a significant episode in the internationalization and international networking in economics and, more broadly, in global intellectual history. Furthermore, particular attention to his objection to the "Eurocentric" organization's attempt to impose minimum wage fixing machinery on and allegations of social dumping in Japan sheds new light on the international development of policy-oriented economics, namely, from the hitherto unheeded perspective of an emerging economy from Asia

Context (archaeology · Economic history · Economics · International trade · Internationalization · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Political Economy and Marxism