Abstract
The reseach into the history of Modern Economics which is understood to be economics on the principle of diminishing marginal utility and non-Marxian economics in Japan, began in the the 1960s, but these studies were few in comparison to the those concerning Classical Ecomomics. From 1970 onwards, conferences and the societies commemorated W. S. Jevons, C. Menger, L. Walras, A. Marshall, and J. A. Shumpeter, and their collected works were edited and published. Then in the 1980s and after, young Japanese scholars were encouraged to study and publish articles and books in English, German, and French, some of which are highly esteemed at home and abroad. By the 1990s the level of the study of Modern Economics in Japan was the same as that of research regarding Classical Economics.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, the themes changed. In the 1960s some scholars became interested in the theories of Marshall and Keynes, and a few of them wrote articles on the theories and methodologies of Menger, Walras, V. Pareto, J. A. Schumpeter, etc. But after the 1970s, articles were written primarily on the theories and thought of Walras and Menger as well as Marshall, Keynes, Jevons. And further, we greatly widened our horizons and made an effort to treat the entire body of thought of each economist. Now we must study their epistemologies and scientific methods underlying their economics and thought. If we don't, we cannot understand the true meaning of the “general” in Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
