Yujiro Hayami

Yujiro Hayami
Born(1932-11-26)26 November 1932
Japan
Died24 December 2012(2012-12-24) (aged 80)
Occupation(s)Agriculturist, Economist, author
AwardsFukuoka Academic Prize
Rockefeller Fellowship
Purple Ribbon
Honorary Lifetime Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists

Yujiro Hayami (速水 佑次郎, Hayami Yūjirō, 1932–2012) was a Japanese agricultural economist, widely considered to be an authority on the subject. He was a Rockefeller fellow at Iowa University, a winner of Purple Ribbon Medal and a Lifetime member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.[1] He is credited with the development Hayami Development Economics, an agricultural philosophy on the relationship of a community to the market and the state.[2] He died on 24 December 2012.[3]

  1. ^ "honours". IFPRI. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Hayami Development Economics". Fukuoka Prize.org. 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Death". IRRI. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2014.