Osamu Shimomura (economist)

Doctor
Osamu Shimomura
下村 治
Shimomura in 1953
Born1910
DiedNovember 27, 1989
NationalityJapanese
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
School or
tradition
Keynesian economics
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Tohoku University
InfluencesJohn Maynard Keynes
ContributionsShimomurian macroeconomics
AwardsSecond Class Order of the Rising Sun

Osamu Shimomura (下村 治 Shimomura Osamu, 1910 – November 27, 1989), born in Saga Prefecture, Kitagawa Village, was a Japanese economist considered to be the "father of the Japanese economic miracle".[1][2]

  1. ^ "The Master Economist Dr Osamu Shimomura - Probably the Greatest Economist of the 20th Century After John Maynard Keynes". London Progressive Journal.
  2. ^ "Dr. Osamu Shimomura's Legacy and the Postwar Japanese Economy - Kozo Horiuchi - Springer".