Takeshi Nakano

Takeshi Nakano
中野剛志
BornOctober 25, 1971
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo (Bachelor's degree)
University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Known forIntroducing Modern Monetary Theory to Japan
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, Policy, Politics, Economics, International Relations
ThesisThe power of nations: theoretical foundations for economic nationalism (2005)
Doctoral advisorRussell Keat

Takeshi Nakano (中野 剛志, Takeshi Nakano, born October 25, 1971) is a Japanese bureaucrat, conservative critic and scholar of economic thought and political thought. Together with Satoshi Fujii, he is the one who introduced Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to Japan.