Economic Thought and Public Welfare in Early Modern Japan : Dazai Shundai's Idea of Political Economy and Joheiso
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Dazai Shundai (1680-1747) associated the problem of the interest in people's welfare by creating useful means for which they enriched their lives with institutionalization processes of political economy in the early eighteenth-century Japan. He meant that the purpose of public welfare-to cause stability and prosperity of the community and people's lives in general-was established as a part of practical learning, through institutionalization. This offered a practical approach to rationality. Dazai linked "the road to public welfare by interests" with the management of the state and human relief. When he attempted to discuss the problem of the 'the law of joheiso' as an institutional framework, on the basis of the theme of public welfare of people by interest, his philosophy of political economy contained a systematic design for welfare and economy. This included the manner in which a solution that loses touch with private interests is able to adjust "the world and the nation" as external public interests. However, Dazai's conclusion was unable to absorb in a unilateral manner the frame cost in order to advance institutionalization, and would overload public welfare. Before creating an institutional design, what can morality in the social climate constitute in the institutional performance among incentive structures? The activation, based on moral recognition, widely needed the foundation of the institutional design for public welfare and its spillover effect. In this sense, Dazai's image of humankind was that of an uncooperative situation, which was due to his belief that people were unable to be endogenous in their learning function.
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- 2010-07-26