The Rejuvenation of Political Economy

Nobuharu Yokokawa is Professor of Economics at Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He was educated at Shiga University (BA), the University of Tokyo (MSc) and Cambridge University (PhD). He co-edited Capitalism in Evolution (2001) and Crises of Global Economies and the Future of Capitalism: Reviv-ing Marxian Crisis Theory (2012). Since 2007, he has been editor of the Uno Theory Newsletter. He is Chairman of the Japan Society of Political Economy (JSPE) Committee for International Communication and Exchange. Kiichiro Yagi is President of Setsunan University, Osaka, Japan. He was educated at the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University. He received his PhD from Kyoto University. He taught political economy and history of economics at Kyoto University for a quarter of a century. Since the mid-1990s, he has tried to integrate the ideas of evolutionary and institutional economics with classical political economy, including Marxian economics. He is Chief Representative of the JSPE. Hiroyasu Uemura is Professor of Economics at Yokohama National University, Japan. He was educated at Hitotsubashi University. He is a contributor to Japanese régulation theory. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of institutional economics and macroeconomic analysis. Richard Westra is Designated Professor in the Graduate School of Law at Nagoya University, Japan. He received his PhD from Queen's University, Canada. He has authored and edited thirteen books. His work has been published in numerous international peer-reviewed academic journals.