2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Economists, Bureaucrats and the Economic Policy Making in Historical Perspective - In particular reference to employment policy and industrial rationalization in Britain -
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11630005
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
経済理論
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHIZAWA Tamotsu Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Economic Research, Professor, 経済研究所, 教授 (10164550)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Economist / Bureaucrat / Policy making / Employment policy / Welfare state / Treasury / Marshall, A. / Keynes, J. M. |
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| Research Abstract |
I have worked on Economists, Bureaucrats and Economic Policy Making in Britain from the late 19^<th> century towards the World War II. I have tried to use the primary sources, to discuss with the relevant scholars abroad, and published several articles both in Japanese and English. In the article "From Poor Law to Welfare State", I tried to make clear some aspects of the economic thoughts and institutions from the perceptions of poverty and unemployment in the late 19^<th> century to the social welfare legislations in the early 20^<th> century, focusing on Marshall, the Webbs, and the 'rational bureaucrats' in the Board of Trade, In the article "Keynes and the Treasury on Employment Policy and Industrial Rationalization", I explored the proposals of Keynes and the Treasury economists like Leith-Ross and Hopkins on public works and employment policy using the Treasury Papers and clarified to some extent the role of Keynes and the Treasury economists in policy making. In the article "Alfred Marshall on Britain's Industrial Leadership", I discussed how Marshall made his policy prescriptions focusing on his ideas on industrial and business organizations. Furthermore in the long paper "Marshall, Ashley on Education of Businessman and 'Science of Business'? : Marshall's School of Economics in the Making", I explored how deeply the Cambridge School of Economics made by Marshall concerned with the British economy.
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