Present and Future of Evolutionary Economics: Japanese Perspectives

Yagi Kiichiro (born in 1947): Professor emeritus at Kyoto University and Setsunan University. After studying sociology and economics at the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University, he worked in the history of economic thought and political economy, including Marxian economics and evolutionary economics. In the area of the history of economic thought, he published Austrian and German Economic Thought (Routledge, 2011) and Modern Japanese Economic Thought (Routledge, 2023). In political economy, he endeavored to renovate Marxian economics' intellectual heritage in the direction of evolutionary and institutional economics. He published a textbook on the modern Marxian political economy (in Japanese, 2007) and coauthored From Reproduction to Evolutionary Governance (Springer 2019). He was in the initial founding group of the Japan Association of Evolutionary Economics and served as its general secretary. He worked further as a member of the editorial board of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review.

Yoshinori Shiozawa (born in 1943): After studying mathematics at Kyoto University, Shiozawa turned to economics during his study abroad in France. From 1983 to 2007 he taught economics and urban studies at Osaka City University. After his retirement from it, he moved to Tokyo to teach at Chuo University, where he taught economics till 2015. He was known as a radical critic of the neo-classical mainstreams from his early works in the 1980s. He joined the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics since its foundation and exerted theoretical influence on this society by editing the Handbook of Evolutionary Economics (in Japanese 2006). Recently he worked on the reconstruction of the classical theory of international value (Coed. A New Construction of Ricardian Theory of International Value, Springer, 2017) and on the microfoundation of evolutionary economics by the modern version of classical value theory (Coauthored, Microfoundation of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, 2019).

Yuji Aruka (born in 1949): Doctor of Economics (Kyoto University). Professor em. of Chuo University, and specially appointed professor at Kyoto University of Advanced Science. Coordinating editor of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review. Board member of The Society of Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents since 2006. After studying economics at Waseda University and Kyoto University, he taught at Chiba University of Commerce and Chuo University. He began his research career first in Sraffian economics and widened his research area to nonlinear dynamics and econophysics. He served as the President of the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics from 2015 to 2018. He published in 2015 Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Science from Springer.

Makoto Nishibe (born in 1962) is a professor at Senshu University. After studying economics at the University of Tokyo, he entered the Graduate School of Economics at York University (Canada). Before teaching at Senshu University, he taught economics at Hokkaido University from 1994 to 2017. In evolutionary economics, he edited Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics (in Japanese, 2004) and published the coauthored elementary textbook Evolutionary Economics - Basics (in Japanese: Nihon Keizai Hyoron-sha, 2010). He was elected the president of the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics (2018-2021). He discovered the utility of community currency as the means of regional vitalization and developed it into the scheme of synthetic health checks for local societies. He published, The Enigma of Money (Springer. 2016) and Whither Capitalism? Internalizing Market and Free Investment (Springer, 2019).

Akinori Isogai (born in 1956): He studied economics at Tohoku University and the Graduate School of Economics at Hitotsubashi University. He taught economics at Kyushu University for over thirty years. After retiring from the former, he moved to Shimonoseki City University as its professor in 2021. He is a member of the Japanese research group that has collaborated with French Régulationists in the institutional analysis of Japanese and Asian capitalist economies. He published Frontiers of Institutional Economics in Japanese in 2004 and coedited Diversity and Transformation of Asian Capitalisms (Routledge, 2012). He is the current President of the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics.

八木喜一郎（1947年出生）：京都大學及摂南大學名譽教授。在東京大學和名古屋大學學習社會學和經濟學後，他專注於經濟思想史和政治經濟學，包括馬克思經濟學和演化經濟學。在經濟思想史領域，他出版了《奧地利與德國經濟思想》（Routledge, 2011）和《現代日本經濟思想》（Routledge, 2023）。在政治經濟學方面，他致力於將馬克思經濟學的知識遺產朝向演化和制度經濟學的方向進行改造。他出版了一本現代馬克思政治經濟學的教科書（日文，2007），並共同編著了《從再生產到演化治理》（Springer 2019）。他是日本演化經濟學會的創始成員之一，並擔任其總幹事。他還擔任《演化與制度經濟學評論》的編輯委員會成員。

塩沢善則（1943年出生）：在京都大學學習數學後，塩沢在法國留學期間轉向經濟學。從1983年到2007年，他在大阪市立大學教授經濟學和城市研究。退休後，他移居東京，在中央大學教授經濟學，直到2015年。他以對新古典主流的激進批評而聞名，早在1980年代的作品中便已顯露。他自日本演化經濟學會成立以來便加入該會，並通過編輯《演化經濟學手冊》（日文，2006）對該社會產生了理論影響。最近，他致力於重建國際價值的古典理論（共同編著，《國際價值的李嘉圖理論新建構》，Springer, 2017）以及基於古典價值理論的演化經濟學微觀基礎（共同編著，《演化經濟學的微觀基礎》，Springer, 2019）。

有司有紀（1949年出生）：經濟學博士（京都大學）。中央大學名譽教授，並擔任京都先端科技大學特聘教授。《演化與制度經濟學評論》的協調編輯。自2006年以來，擔任異質互動代理經濟科學學會的董事會成員。在早稻田大學和京都大學學習經濟學後，他曾在千葉商業大學和中央大學任教。他的研究生涯始於Sraffian經濟學，並擴展到非線性動力學和經濟物理學。他於2015年至2018年擔任日本演化經濟學會會長。他於2015年出版了《經濟科學的演化基礎》（Springer）。

西部誠（1962年出生）：專任教授於專修大學。在東京大學學習經濟學後，他進入加拿大約克大學的經濟學研究所。於專修大學任教之前，他在北海道大學教授經濟學，任教時間為1994年至2017年。在演化經濟學方面，他編輯了《演化經濟學的前沿》（日文，2004），並出版了共同編著的基礎教科書《演化經濟學 - 基礎》（日文：日本經濟評論社，2010）。他於2018年至2021年擔任日本演化經濟學會會長。他發現社區貨幣作為區域振興的手段，並將其發展為地方社會的綜合健康檢查方案。他出版了《貨幣之謎》（Springer, 2016）和《資本主義何去何從？內部化市場與自由投資》（Springer, 2019）。

磯貝明則（1956年出生）：他在東北大學和一橋大學的經濟學研究所學習經濟學。他在九州大學教授經濟學超過三十年。退休後，他移居下關市。