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The Advent of Political Economy at Cambridge: Considered in Terms of Organizations and Personal Networks

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K03649
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Economic doctrine/Economic thought
Research InstitutionKwansei Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

Kubo Shin  関西学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30276399)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywordsケンブリッジ / 古典派経済学 / ウィリアム・ヒューウェル / リチャード・ジョーンズ / チャールズ・バベッジ / アドルフ・ケトレ / 統計運動 / 経済学 / ジョーンズ / プライム / ハーシェル / ヒューウェル / ケトレ / 経済学方法論 / ケンブリッジ経済学 / ネットワーク
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has come up with two findings, as regards the anti-orthodox economic movement that the early 1830s witnessed at Cambridge, where the economics professorship had been created in 1828. The first finding is that the establishment of the statistical section of the British Association in its 1833 meeting at Cambridge was a successful event in which the personal relationship between William Whewell and Adolphe Quetelet played a more important role than ever known. This suggests a node intermediating between the Cantabrigian network (the pivotal figure of which was Whewell) and the International Statistical Movement network (which was personified in Quetelet). The second finding is that in spite of the two's cooperation, there was a large rift between them as to the use of mathematics in social studies, a rift that would lead them to be in disaccord as to how to organize knowledge about society and economy.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

1830年代のケンブリッジにおける経済学の有り様は、従来、主として公刊されたテキストに基づき語られてきたが、各地に分散して所蔵されている手稿類や非公式資料を分析しさらにそれらを総合することによって、交錯する人的ネットワークが英国科学振興協会の1833年ケンブリッジ大会における統計部会という組織の設置に結びついていった次第を、(部分的とはいえ)明らかにした。このことは、単に従来知られていなかった事実を発見したということに止まらず、人的ネットワーク・組織両面から思想史にアプローチするという方法が新たな知見をもたらしたという点でも、少なくない学術的意義を有するものである。

Report

(8 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 Other

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Book (3 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Takumi Tsuda, Antagonism between Free Trade and Protectionism2022

    • Author(s)
      Ando Yusuke、Kubo Shin
    • Journal Title

      The History of Economic Thought

      Volume: 64 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-28

    • DOI

      10.5362/jshet.64.1_1

    • ISSN
      1880-3164, 1884-7358
    • Year and Date
      2022-07-25
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] English Economic Thought in the 17th Century: Rejecting the Dutch Model2022

    • Author(s)
      Kubo Shin
    • Journal Title

      Contributions to Political Economy

      Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Pages: 204-207

    • DOI

      10.1093/cpe/bzac013

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Hirofumi Uzawa: Between Minamata and Cambridge2021

    • Author(s)
      Kubo Shin
    • Journal Title

      Contributions to Political Economy

      Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Pages: 75-79

    • DOI

      10.1093/cpe/bzab001

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A Note on Seven Letters from Piero Sraffa to Tsuneo Hori, Chief Editor of the Japanese Translation of Ricardo's Works and Correspondence2017

    • Author(s)
      Shin Kubo
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Economics of Kwansei Gakuin University

      Volume: 71巻1号 Pages: 165-183

    • NAID

      120006348561

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Book Review: 'Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, eds., The Elgar Companion to David Ricardo, Edward Elgar, 2015'2017

    • Author(s)
      Shin Kubo
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the History of Economic Thought

      Volume: 39巻4号 Issue: 4 Pages: 614-617

    • DOI

      10.1017/s1053837216000626

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reforming Political Economy using Statistics: The Words and Deeds of Quetelet and Whewell2019

    • Author(s)
      Shin Kubo
    • Organizer
      The 46th annual conference of the History of Economics Society (HES)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reforming Political Economy using Statistics: The Words and Deeds of Quetelet and Whewell2017

    • Author(s)
      Shin Kubo
    • Organizer
      The 21st annual conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 経済学史入門2023

    • Author(s)
      中澤信彦・松本哲人・藤村哲史・久保 真・若松直幸・原谷直樹・佐々木憲介・石田教子・中井大介・上宮智之・廣瀬弘毅・江頭進・只腰親和
    • Total Pages
      278
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • ISBN
      9784812222133
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 『社会思想史事典』2019

    • Author(s)
      社会思想史学会編
    • Total Pages
      856
    • Publisher
      丸善
    • ISBN
      9784621303412
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『経済学方法論の多元性──歴史的視点から』2018

    • Author(s)
      只腰親和, 佐々木憲介, 原谷直樹, 松本哲人, 上宮智之, 江頭進, 久保 真, 廣瀬弘毅, 石田教子, 中澤信彦, 松井名津
    • Total Pages
      356
    • Publisher
      蒼天社出版
    • ISBN
      9784909560254
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 関西学院大学 教員・研究者紹介

    • URL

      http://researchers.kwansei.ac.jp/view?l=ja&u=61385

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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