The Special Memorial Issue of the Uno Newsletter: (Honouring Thomas T. Sekine, 1933 – 2022)
Thomas Sekine—system-builder, translator of Kozo Uno, and mentor—devoted his career to clarifying Kozo Uno’s reconstruction of Marx’s economics and to nurturing an international community of scholars who pursue rigorous political economy. This English-language issue of the Uno Newsletter presents two major research papers and a three-part recollective essay that were published in the Japanese edition of the Uno Newsletter, vol. 2-29 and 31. Together with the new introduction, they illuminate the breadth of Sekine’s influence, from theoretical disputes over the commodity form to Sekine’s role in Japan studies in Canada and the convivial give-and-take of the Uno Study Group in Toronto.
Guest editors: Brian MacLean, Tomiichi Hoshino, Sumio Kamezaki, and Hideo Okamoto
Contents:
Brian K. MacLean, Introduction to the Special Memorial Issue of the Uno Newsletter (Honouring Thomas T. Sekine, 1933 – 2022)- Kiyoshi Nagatani, The dialectic of the theory of the commodity
- Brian K. MacLean, Thomas T. Sekine as a Japan Specialist in Canada: Reminiscences of a Former Student on His Intellectual Openness
- Robert R. Albritton, Colin Duncan, and Stefanos Kourkoulakos, Recalling Tom Sekine and the Uno Study Group in Toronto
Combined PDF of All Articles
The Uno Newsletter (in Japanese) started after the 30th Memorial Conference (2007) in honour of Kozo Uno (1897-1977) who developed an approach to understanding capitalism (and appropriating Marx’s ideas) that contains three levels of analysis: the general theory of capitalism; the stages of capitalist development; and detailed historical analysis of capitalism as it manifests itself in particular countries and time-periods. In the open spirit of Japanese political economy, contributions to the Uno Newsletter draw on diverse intellectual traditions. The focus of The Uno Newsletter encompasses the basic theory of capitalism, the integration of heterodox economics, including Marxian, Post-Keynesian, Institutional, Evolutionary, and Neo-Schumpeterian economics, the theory of capitalist development, and the empirical analysis of capitalism.
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