Shigeto Tsuru
Shigeto Tsuru (้ฝ็ ้ไบบ, Tsuru Shigeto?, March 6, 1912 - February 5, 2006) was a Japanese economist.
Tsuru took his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1940. 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 became the president of Hitotsubashi University and served as editorial adviser at the Asahi Shimbun. In 1985, receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University.
A prominent cousin of his was Kiso Tsuru a doctor and humanitarian who lived in Mexico most of his life.
Works
- "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
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