Mark Metzler (UT Austin), Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to Postwar Japanese Economic Miracle

Date: 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 12:00pm to 2:00pm

  

Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) │2nd Floor │CGIS Knafel Building │1730 Cambridge Street (map)

Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to Postwar Japanese Economic Miracle

Mark Metzler

Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin

Professor Metzler’s research interests include modern Japanese history, global history, and historical political economy. He is the author of Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (University of California Press, 2006), which was Short-listed for the International Conference of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Award and the Hamilton Book Award Runner-up (2007). His articles have been published in numerous edited volumes and journals including Asia Pacific Business Review, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, and The Japanese Economy. His will speak on his forthcoming book: Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle (Cornell UP, April 2013).

 

Moderator: Andrew Gordon

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies