...), who devoted himself to shizoku jusan (the enterprise for employing ex‐samurai), as founder and president, for 22 years. Examination of his biography reveals how capital was furnished to develop companies, how light industrialization took place in Western Japan, and also how education...

... the eastern forces supporting the Shogunate led by the Aizu Daimiate, and the western forces against the Shogunate led by the Choshu and Satsuma diamiates. Joining the western forces, Okayama Daimiate played an important role in the Meiji Restoration. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Biography Economics...

... however time to go to Europe. My journey home was to take a few weeks and was basically to be for sightseeing. Biography Economists Many believe that the life of an economist must be boring. It can be. But then anybody’s life can be boring. There is some truth in the maxim that “life is what...

... and it is demonstrated how they have benefited his academic research and teaching. He has found that economics provides tremendous scope for versatility and diversity in exploring the world around us. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Biography Economics When John O’Brien suggested to me that I should write...

...Clem Tisdell Begins by considering whether the economic theory of the supply, nature and demand for biographies developed by James M. Buchanan and Robert Tollison might apply to this autobiography. Outlines Tisdell’s experiences in his pre‐school years (1939‐1945), at school (1946‐1956...