Katsuhito Iwai

Katsuhito Iwai
岩井 克人
Katsuhito Iwai
Born (1947-02-13) February 13, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityJapanese
SpouseMinae Mizumura
Academic career
FieldDisequilibrium macroeconomics
InstitutionInternational Christian University
Musashino University
University of Siena
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
University of Tokyo
Cowles Foundation
Yale University
University of California, Berkeley
Alma materMIT (Ph.D. 1972)
University of Tokyo (B.A. 1969)
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Solow
Doctoral
students
Willem Buiter
InfluencesKnut Wicksell
Paul Samuelson
Hirofumi Uzawa

Katsuhito Iwai (岩井 克人, Iwai Katsuhito, born February 13, 1947) is a Japanese economist and critic. He has studied the theory of money, macro dynamics, evolutionary economics, philosophy of corporations, fiduciary law, and the history of sociology. His work includes the book, Disequilibrium Dynamics (Yale University Press, 1981), and many articles published in academic journals. He has also written books and articles in newspapers and magazines for the general public on a wide variety of subjects ranging from global capitalism, post-modernity, civil society, money and language to literature and movies. His keen observations and analysis of the works of Shakespeare, Marx, J. S. G. Boggs, and Ihara Saikaku have established him as one of the foremost essayists in Japan.[1]

  1. ^ Capitalism according to the Merchant of Venice (Venice no Shonin no Shihon Ron), (Chikuma-Shobo, 1985. 1; Chikuma-Gakugei-Bunko, 1992. 6); On the 21st Century Capitalism (21 Seiki no Shihonshugi Ron),(Chikuma-Shobo,2000.3)