Susumu Nishibe | |
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西部 邁 | |
Born | |
Died | January 21, 2018 Ōta, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | (aged 78)
Academic background | |
Education | Sapporo Minami High School |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo (Bachelor, Master) |
Influences | Edmund Burke, Joseph Schumpeter, Yukichi Fukuzawa, José Ortega y Gasset, Tsuneari Fukuda |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Socioeconomics, Political philosophy, Mass society Studies |
School or tradition | Neoconservative[1] |
Influenced | Shinzo Abe, Shoji Nishida, Keishi Saeki, Satoshi Fujii, Takeshi Nakano, Teruhisa Se, Kenji Sato, Keita Shibayama |
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Susumu Nishibe (西部 邁, 15 March 1939 – 21 January 2018) was a Japanese critic, conservative and economist. He was a professor of Socioeconomics at University of Tokyo. He criticized modern economics, progressivism, and rationalism, and advocated theories on mass society, conservatism, and the independence of Japan from the United States.