ABSTRACT OF PAPER
Title: German Views on Crisis in Japanese Economic Dictionaries before WWII
Author: TOMO Shigeki
With respect to the subject Crisis, Japanese prewar dictionaries imported two German understandings which were represented by Wilhelm Roscher and Carl Marx. It was not both at a time, but 20 years elapsed from the introduction of the former’s to that of the latter’s. This interval was necessary due to the development of Japanese studies in economics. When the article based on the Roscherian understanding of crisis was prepared for publication in the Keizai-Daijisho (Comprehensive Dictionary of Economy) by the Dobun-Kwan in the first decade of the 20th century, studies in socialist economics were not so prevailing as after the Russian Revolution, which strongly influenced on the preparation period for the Keizaigaku-Jiten (Dictionary of Economics) published by Iwanami Shoten from 1930 to 1936. This paper is going to show that the articles on crisis in those two dictionaries would illustrate a characteristic in the formative phase of economics studies in Japan before World War II: the evolution from its passive institutionalization of economics at the Tokyo Imperial University to the active studies towards socialist orientation at the economics faculty of the Kyoto Imperial University. The former was represented by Hidematsu Tsumura, and the latter by Minoru Miyakawa. The role of Hajime Kawakami must be underlined as the leader of Marxian orientation for Miyakawa during the second decade of the 20th century. Table of contents: The institutionalization The Keizai-Daijisho by the Dobun-Kwan Crisis in Book on Consumption Crisis and Credit Tsumura and Kawakami The Keizaigaku-Jiten by Iwanami Shoten Taniguchi’s deviation Miyakawa as a protéjé of Kawakami Concluding Remarks References
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