03656nam 22007814a 450 991114893770332120251117115046.0978661235631597805209268370520926838978128235631312823563139781597345415159734541510.1525/9780520926837(CKB)111087027177578(EBL)223554(OCoLC)475928372(SSID)ssj0000122603(PQKBManifestationID)11142721(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122603(PQKBWorkID)10122763(PQKB)10540430(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055960(MdBmJHUP)muse30459(DE-B1597)519448(OCoLC)614722353(DE-B1597)9780520926837(Au-PeEL)EBL223554(CaPaEBR)ebr10048984(CaONFJC)MIL235631(Perlego)551117(MiAaPQ)EBC223554(EXLCZ)9911108702717757820010222d2002 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrThe city as subject Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka /Jeffrey E. Hanes1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (361 p.)Twentieth-century JapanDescription based upon print version of record.9780520228498 0520228499 Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-333) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. A Portrait of the Economist as a Young Man --2. The People's National Economy --3. Class and Nation --4. Toward a Modern Moral Economy --5. A New Urbanism --6. The Livable City --Notes --315 Bibliography --IndexIn exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890's, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself early on as a people-centered, rather than a state-centered, national economist. After three years of advanced study in Europe at the turn of the century, during which he engaged Marxism and later steeped himself in the exciting new field of social economics, Seki was transformed into a progressive. The social reformism of Seki and others had its roots in a transnational fellowship of progressives who shared the belief that civilized nations should be able to forge a middle path between capitalism and socialism. Hanes's sweeping study permits us not only to weave social progressivism into the modern Japanese historical narrative but also to reconceive it as a truly transnational movement whose impact was felt across the Pacific as well as the Atlantic.Twentieth-century Japan.EconomistsJapanBiographyMayorsJapanBiographyOsaka (Japan)Economic conditionsJapanEconomic conditions1918-1945EconomistsMayors307.1/26/092BHanes Jeffrey E.1950-Seki Hajime1873-1935.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911148937703321UNINA