Kozo Uno

Kozo Uno
Kozo Uno, 1952
Born(1897-11-12)November 12, 1897
DiedFebruary 22, 1977(1977-02-22) (aged 79)
Kugenuma, Fujisawa
NationalityJapanese
Academic career
FieldPolitical economy
School or
tradition
Marxian economics, Marxist revisionism
InfluencesHegel, Marx, Sombart, Kautsky, Hilferding, Lenin, Weber, Ōuchi Hyōe, Sakisaka Itsurō

Kozo Uno (宇野 弘蔵, Uno Kōzō, November 12, 1897 – February 22, 1977) was a Japanese economist and is considered one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value.

He is an influential Marxist economist in Japan, where his school of thought is called the Uno School (Uno gakuha) . His main work Principles of Economics [経済原論] was published in 1950-52. Among his scholars are Thomas T. Sekine and Makoto Itoh.