The controversies over the institutionalization of early modern English economy and the Dutch model

• Project/Area Number: 16K03588
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic doctrine/Economic thought
• Research Institution: Ohtsuki City College
• Principal Investigator: Seiichiro Ito 大月短期大学, 経済科, 教授(移行) (20255582)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 経済思想 / 17世紀 / イングランド / オランダ / 経済論争 / 漁業 / 銀行 / 16世紀 / トレイド

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There were widely-held controversies over fishery, interest rates, banking and land-registration in seventeenth-century England. I revealed that the issues of these controversies were about how to imitate the Dutch advanced model and how to adjust and adopt it for the English economic growth. I finished the draft of an English book, wrote a book proposal for the publication and submitted it to a English publisher.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今日の世界の状況を考えたとき、アメリカの衰退と中国の台頭という大きな流れの中で、20世紀後半からの日本も、その世界における位置づけは時と共に変わってきた。われわれは、どこに向かい、何を目指すべきなのか、そうした極めて現代的な疑問へのヒントが、17世紀に、のちに世界のヘゲモニーを握るイングランドが、当時の先進国オランダをどう論じたかを見ることによって得られる。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Mercantilism reimagined or redefined?: A Review of Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind (2016)
  • Author(s): Seiichiro Ito
  • Journal Title: 『経済学史研究』 Volume: 58 (1) Pages: 139-148
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The Land Bank United, a failed project in 1696 (2018)
  • Author(s): Seiichiro Ito
  • Organizer: The European Society for the History of Economic Thought
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Navy or fishery - the beginning of the early modern English economic controversy - (2017)
  • Author(s): Seiichiro Ito
  • Organizer: The 21th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
• [Presentation] Navy of Fishery: The Beginning of the Century-long Controversy (2016)
  • Author(s): 伊藤誠一郎
  • Organizer: 社会思想史研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学今出川キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-24