Books by Tetsuo Najita

"This is one of the most important books ever published in the West on Japanese culture." - Times Literary Supplement

Explores a theme in the economic thought and practice of ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and early modern Japan. This title focuses on the relationship of economics, ethics, and the epistemological premise that nature must serve as the first principle of all knowledge, and illuminates comparative issues of poverty, capitalism, and modernity.