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The Wrong but Influential Image of Adam Smith in the 20th century Japan
What the Adam Smith Library and Nitobe Suggest
2019 年 82 巻 3 号 p. 23-30
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2019 年 82 巻 3 号 p. 23-30
This paper examines how Japanese image of Adam Smith (1723-1790) in the twentieth century was biased from the original Smith through investigating ‘Adam Smith Library’ in the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo bought by Professor Inazo Nitobe of Tokyo Imperial University in 1920, with necessary comparison with Hiroshi Mizuta’s Adam Smith’s Library: A Catalogue (Oxford, 2000).
