Katsuhito Iwai
Katsuhito Iwai | |
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| 岩井 克人 | |
Katsuhito Iwai | |
| Born | February 13, 1947 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Spouse | Minae Mizumura |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | MIT (Ph.D. 1972) University of Tokyo (B.A. 1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Influences | Knut Wicksell Paul Samuelson Hirofumi Uzawa |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Disequilibrium macroeconomics |
| Institutions | International Christian University Musashino University University of Siena University of Pennsylvania Princeton University University of Tokyo Cowles Foundation Yale University University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | Willem Buiter |
Katsuhito Iwai (岩井 克人, Iwai Katsuhito; born February 13, 1947) is a Japanese economist and critic. He has studied the theory of money, macro dynamics, evolutionary economics, philosophy of corporations, fiduciary law, and the history of sociology. His work includes the book, Disequilibrium Dynamics (Yale University Press, 1981), and many articles published in academic journals. He has also written books and articles in newspapers and magazines for the general public on a wide variety of subjects ranging from global capitalism, post-modernity, civil society, money and language to literature and movies. His keen observations and analysis of the works of Shakespeare, Marx, J. S. G. Boggs, and Ihara Saikaku have established him as one of the foremost essayists in Japan.