Abstract
This article explores the views of two eminent professors of economics, Abe Isoo (1865-1949) and Kawakami Hajime (1879-1946), regarding their socialist economic theories for easing poverty in Japan during the interwar years (1918-1939). Prior to this period, Abe believed the cure to capitalism's ills lay in a combination of socialist economic reforms (sangyô demokurashii) and individual spiritual refinement. Kawakami, at that time a bourgeois economist, prioritised the spiritual revolution of the rich over any socialist-type economic reform.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 57-74 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | East Asia: an international quarterly |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |