This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors.

Contents: The Dissemination of Economic Ideas: Introduction Heinz D. Kurz, Tamotsu Nishizawa and Keith Tribe PART I: SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Cameralism as an Intermediary between Mediterranean Scholastic Economic Thought and Classical Economics Bertram Schefold 2. The Ideal Statesman: The Influence of Richelieu on Davenant’s Political Thought Seiichiro Ito 3. Polizei and the System of Public Finance: Tracing the Impact of Cameralism in Eighteenth-Century Portugal Alexandre Mendes Cunha PART II: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN INTERACTIONS 4. The Development of Economic Theories in Germany: From Karl Heinrich Rau to Wilhelm Roscher Yukihiro Ikeda 5. German Influences in the Making of American Economics, 1885–1935 Bradley W. Bateman 6. Marshall’s Ideas on Progress: Roots and Diffusion Katia Caldari and Tamotsu Nishizawa PART III: THE DIFFUSION OF ECONOMIC IDEAS IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND 7. The Dissemination of Economic Thought in South-Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century Michalis M. Psalidopoulos and Nicholas J. Theocarakis 8. Adventures of an Austrian Trio Ahead: The Influence of Schumpeter, Polanyi and Hayek in Turkey and the Dissemination of their Work Eyüp Özveren PART IV: THE EXCHANGES OF IDEAS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE REST OF THE WORLD 9. The Diffusion of Economic Ideas: Lionel Robbins in Italy and Japan Atsushi Komine and Fabio Masini 10. The Kyoto University Economic Review (1926–44) as Importer and Exporter of Economic Ideas: Bringing Lausanne, Cambridge, Vienna and Marx to Japan Robert W. Dimand and Masazumi Wakatabe 11. The Background of K. Akamatsu’s Gankou Keitai Ron and its Development: Early Empirical Analysis at Nagoya Tadashi Ohtsuki 12. Was Sozialforschung an Aesopian Term? Marxism as a Link between Japan and the West Kiichiro Yagi 13. The Contributions of Two Eminent Japanese Scholars to the Development of Economic Theory: Michio Morishima and Takashi Negishi Heinz D. Kurz Index

‘This book is highly recommended for the richness and novelty of its case studies. Leaving aside the positive contribution made in enhancing our understanding of Japanese economic thought, by giving voice to economic traditions that had been previously neglected, and by showing the complexity of the interaction between the ‘centers’ of economic theorizing and the ‘periphery,’ the book has a great capacity to raise deep questions on the ways in which economic ideas originate, travel, adapt, and eventually become institutionalized.’