H-US-Japan
25 June 2012
subject: Special lecture in Osaka

It is our honor to have Professor Mark Metzler at Osaka University.
We will hold a special lecture open to the public.

Time: 13:00 - 14:30, 27 June 2012 (Tuesday)
Venue: Gakujutsu Koryu Room, 3rd Floor of Building E, Minoh Campus Osaka U.
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/access/accessmap.html#map03
（access map）
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/access/minoh.html（campus
map）
（3rd floor of building #7）

Guest Speaker：Professor Mark Metzler(Associate professor, Department of Asian Stuides, The University of Texas at Austin) Ph.D. in History (East Asia/Japan), University of California, Berkeley,1998

Writer of _Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan_ (University of California Press, 2006)

Lecture Title："Of Booms and Bubbles: Japan, Joseph Schumpeter, and the Invention of Asian-Style High-Speed Growth"

Synopsis：
Joseph Schumpeter's conceptions of entrepreneurship and innovation have had more influence in thinking about those subjects than those of any other scholar.
Schumpeter pioneered the study of economic development and of technological paradigm shifts, and he is credited as a forerunner of the emerging field of evolutionary economics. But he is not thought of as a theorist of credit-supercharged high-speed growth. This is what he became in postwar Japan. "The typically Schumpeter-type development"
described Japan's developmental course "more definitely than in the case of the other advanced nations,"
according to Shinohara Miyohei. Or, according to Ouchi Hyoe, "this Schumpeter" was "gifted in cunning," "a stage director of prodigious acrobatic stunts," who had "a mysterious influence in Japan." This influence reached a peak around 1960, the moment of the Income-Doubling boom. As leading economists and planners insisted, Schumpeter's theory was truly apt as a description of the core dynamics of Japan’s boom. It also helps to explain Japan's bubble, and the global bubbles that have followed it.

This talk is based on Professor Metzler's new book entitled, _Capital as Will and Imagination, Joseph Schumpeter, Japan, and the Invention of the Asian Miracle_ (forthcoming from Cornell University Press.)

We also have a supper study meeting with Professor Metzler starting at
18:00 on 26 June. If you wish to attend, please contact Yone Sugita sugita[at]lang.osaka-u.ac.jp

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Yoneyuki Sugita