History of desires by analytical approach; economic presumptions

• Project/Area Number: 26780132
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic doctrine/Economic thought
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: NOHARA Shinji 東京大学, 大学院経済学研究科(経済学部), 講師 (30725685)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 欲望思想 / 思想史 / 経済学史 / 経済思想 / 社会思想 / アダム・スミス / 欲望 / 貧困 / 貨幣 / イギリス / 欲望思想の社会的基礎 / 経済学の基礎の解明 / 旅行記に見られる経済社会 / 国際研究者交流 / 国際情報交換

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Economic theory presupposes that each individual behaves to maximize his or her desires. However, it does not question what desires are. Thus, this research is to examine what desires are in economics.
To attain this goal, it is important to grasp how past thinkers and economists grasped desires. Their understanding of desires was the foundation of desires in economics. In concrete, desires at the beginning of economics in the eighteenth century were researched. As a result, essays have been published, and presentations were given.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Cambridge University(英国)
• [Journal Article] アダム・スミスにおける貧困対策問題 (2015)
  • Author(s): 野原慎司
  • Journal Title: 経済学論集 Volume: 80 Pages: 74-90
  • NAID: 130008164121
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Adam Smith's science of commerce (2016)
  • Author(s): Shinji Nohara
  • Organizer: The History of Economics Society
  • Place of Presentation: Durham (U. S. A.)
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-18
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The effects of commerce and war in Adam Smith (2015)
  • Author(s): 野原慎司
  • Organizer: European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought
  • Place of Presentation: 小樽商科大学（北海道・小樽市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-13
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Adam Smith on the value of silver (2015)
  • Author(s): 野原慎司
  • Organizer: International Society of the Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Place of Presentation: Erasmus University（ロッテルダム・オランダ）
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-30
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Commerce, economic development, and equilibrium in Montesquieu, Hume, and Smith (2015)
  • Author(s): 野原慎司
  • Organizer: History of Economics Society
  • Place of Presentation: Michigan State University（イーストランシング・アメリカ）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-27
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Tracing Adam Smith's thinking (2014)
  • Author(s): Shinji Nohara
  • Organizer: International Society for the Eighteenth-century studies
  • Place of Presentation: マンチェスター（イギリス）
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-08 – 2014-09-12
• [Presentation] Liberty and inequality in Smith and Condorcet (2014)
  • Author(s): Shinji Nohara
  • Organizer: The European Society for the history of economic thought
  • Place of Presentation: ローザンヌ（スイス）
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-29 – 2014-05-31
• [Book] Hats off, gentlemen: changing arts of communication in the eighteenth century (2017)
  • Author(s): P. J. Corfield, L. Hannan, Shinji Nohara
  • Total Pages: 346
  • Publisher: Honore Champion Editeur
• [Book] War in the history of economic thought: economists and the questions of wa (2017)
  • Author(s): A, Rosselli, Y. Ikeda, Shinji Nohara
  • Publisher: Routledge
• [Book] Hats off, gentlemen: changing arts of communication in the eighteenth century (2016)
  • Author(s): 野原慎司他
  • Publisher: Honore Champion Editeur
• [Book] Changing arts of communication in the eigthteenth century (2015)
  • Author(s): P. Corfield (ed.), Shinji Nohara
  • Total Pages: 350
  • Publisher: Honore Champion Editeur