Michio Morishima

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Michio Morishima
Born(1923-07-18)July 18, 1923
DiedJuly 13, 2004(2004-07-13) (aged 80)
NationalityJapanese
Academic career
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
Osaka University
FieldHeterodox economics
Alma materKyoto University
Doctoral
students
Christopher A. Pissarides
AwardsOrder of Culture

Michio Morishima (森嶋 通夫, Morishima Michio, July 18, 1923 – July 13, 2004) was a Japanese

public intellectual who was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics from 1970 to 1988. He was also professor at Osaka University and member of the British Academy
. In 1976 he won the Order of Culture (文化勲章, Bunka-kunshō).

Career

Originally desiring a career as a

neoclassical economic theory and Marxian economics. Mathematically gifted, in 1946, he graduated from Kyoto University and taught there in addition to Osaka University. He started Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) of Osaka University with Yasuma Takada
.

In 1960 he established with Nobel-laureate

Lawrence R. Klein from the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania the International Economic Review (today published by Penn), which grew to become one of the leading journals in economics in the world.[1]

In 1965, he became the first Japanese president of the Econometric Society. By all accounts, John Hicks was a committed advocate of Morishima's careership in England.

In 1968, he immigrated to Britain, teaching at University of Essex, then accepting an endowed chair at the LSE in 1970.

Later, he started the project that led to the establishment of the Suntory-Toyota Foundation and the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at LSE. He was STICERD's first chairman. In 1991 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the LSE.[2]

Contributions

Morishima's three-volume work reinterpreting and synthesizing economic ideas in the major writings of

classical political economy, and capitalism drove this work. Based on LSE lectures, these books worked towards the accommodation of von Neumann's 1937 multi-sectoral growth model to a general equilibrium model. Considering the work of these theorists to be Ricardian
, his three books worked to show that the modification of them along von Neumann lines elucidates the theoretical similarities and differences between the positions.

Academic positions

Publications

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