Focusing on Japan's industrialization since the mid-19th century, the book explores the economic ideas of influential scholars, starting with Miura Baien in the 18th century. It provides a detailed comparison with Western economic thought, highlighting how these intellectual contributions shaped Japan's modernization process.
This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School) changed the focus of social science in the German speaking world, and how it prepared the introduction of an evolutionary perspective in economics, politics, and sociology. Based on (mostly hitherto unknown) primary evidence, this development is lively described in a series of encounters and decisions by each social scientists.