基調講演　グローバル化時代におけるメゾ・エコノミックスの課題

抄録

In the first half of the paper the author draws the readers’ attention to the usefulness of Fernand Braudel’s views of history as the basic theory of discussing the relations between capitalism and agriculture. Then he introduces Yanagida Kunio’s works related to the rural economy and society in Japan and tries to identify their relevance to the days of economic globalization in the 21st century.
In the latter half the author reviews the two researches focused on the formation of cooperative activities in the rural societies, which adopted the different methods such as econometric approach and in-depth case study. Then he emphasizes the urgent task of fuse or unite these two different approaches for achieving future development and globalization of Meso-Economics.