Tsuru Shigeto

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Tsuru Shigeto (都留重人, 1912-2006). Japanese Marxian economist.

Tsuru took his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1940, in the company of such fellow graduate students as Paul Samuelson, Alan and Paul Sweezy, and John Kenneth Galbraith. He married into one of Japan's oldest, most prestigious, and most powerful families (his wife's uncle was the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal). Tsuru worked in the Foreign Ministry as economic advisor to the Economic and Scientific Section of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, and during the Socialist coalition government of 1947-1948 he was Vice Minister of the Economic Stabilization Board (at the age of 35). After the conservative electoral ascendancy he went on to a distinguished academic career, including the presidency of Hitotsubashi University and service as editorial advisor to Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading newspaper. As Mark Perlman writes Tsuru has observed all major Japanese developments from the 1940s onward more or less "at nose length." In 1985, receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, he was referred to as "one of Japan's most highly esteemed economists and a founder of the Japanese environmental movement."

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"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).
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