Yasukichi Yasuba’s English AcademicAchievements(May 21,1930-April 13, 2005)
Ph.D. Thesis• Thesis Title “Economics of the Birth-rates of the White Population: United States, 18001860”, Johns Hopkins University, Graduate School of Economics (Advisor: Simon Smith
Kuznets), Ph.D. Economics, February 1961

Books
• Birth Rates of the White Population in the United States, 1800-1860: An Economic Study,Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. [Later, Colin Forster and G.S.L. Tuckeer almost
dedicated their book, Economic Opportunity and White American Fertility Ratios, 18001860, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972), to me by stating “This study
was provoked by Yasukichi Yasuba’s Birth Rates of the White Population in the UnitedStates, 1800-1860, in p. ix.]
• Co-editors, Political Economy of Japan, (General Editors, Yasusuke Murakami and HughPatrick), Vol. 1, The Domestic Transformation, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987,(Coedited with-Kozo Yamamura).

Papers• “Asset Revaluation and Income Taxation in Japan”, National Tax Journal, Vol. XIII, No.1,March, 1960, (Co-authored with Sidney Davidson).
• “The Profitability and Viability of Plantation Slavery in the United States”, EconomicStudies Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1, September, 1961.
• “Foreign Economic Policy of the United States Aﬀecting Japan: 1945-62”, American Attitude Toward Japan, The International House of Japan, 1964.
• “Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Japan”, Journal of Economic History, XXV,
No. 4, December, 1965, (Co-authored with Mataji Miyamoto and Yotaro Sakudo).
• “A Revised Index of Industrial Production for Japan, 1905-1935”, Osaka Economic Papers,
Vol. XIX, Nos. 1-2, March, 1971.
• “Revaluation of the Yen”, Thai Economic Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, September1971.
• “Modern Economists’ Views on Japanese Economy-A Survey”, Japanese Economic Studies,Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter, March, 1972.
• “Summary and Conclusions”, Economic Development Cooperation in South East Asia,International Development Center of Japan, February. 197324.
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• “Anatomy of the Debate on Japanese Capitalism”, Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 2,No. 1, Autumn, 1975.
• “The Evolution of Dualistic Wage Structure”, Hugh Patrick, ed., Japanese Industrialization
and Its Social Consequences, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
• “The Impact of Oil Crisis on Southeast Asia”, [Shinichi Ichimura, ed., Southeast Asia:Nature, Society and Development], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1976.
• “Freight Rates and Productivity in Ocean Transportation for Japan, 1875-1943”, Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 15, No. 1, January, 1978.
• “Resources and Japan’s Development”, [Shigeto Tsuru, ed., Growth and Resources Problems Related to Japan, Proceedings of Section VI of the Fifth Congress of the International
Economic Association Held in Tokyo, Japan], Asahi Evening News, 1978.
• “American Impact on the Japanese Economy”, Robin W. Winks, ed., Other Voices, OtherViews: An International Collection of Essays from the Bicentenmial, Westport, Conn. andLondon: Greenwood Press, 1978.
• “Imported Inflation and the Upward Revaluation of the Yen”, Jacob S. Dreyer, ed., Breadthand Depth in Economics-Fritz Machlup: The Man and His Ideas, Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, D. C. Heath, 1978.
• “Policy-Induced Growth and the Older Generation”, Japanese Economic Studies, Vol. VII,
No. 3, Spring, 1979.
• “The Impact of ASEAN on the Asia-Pacific Region”, in Ross Garnout, ed., ASEAN in theChanging Pacific World Economy, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1980.
• “Salient Features of Japanese Economic Growth in the Post-Meiji Period”, Chira Hongladaramand Medhi Krongkaew, eds., Comparative Development-Japan and Thailand, Bangkok:Thammasat University Press, 1981.
• “Initial Conditions, Institutional Changes, Policy, and Their Consequences: Siam andJapan, 1855-1914” (Co-authored with Likhit Diravegin), in Kazushi Ohkawa and GustavRanis, eds., Japan and the Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis, Oxford: BasilBlackwell, 1985.
• “Standard of Living in Japan Before Industrialization: From What Level Did Japan Begin?:A Comment”, Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, March, 1986.
• “Economic Welfare”, (Co-authored with Martin Bronfenbrenner), in Kozo Yamamura andYasukichi Yasuba, eds., The Political Economy of Japan, (General Editors, Yasusuke Murakami and Hugh Patrick), Vol. 1, Domestic Transformation, Stanford: Stanford University
Press: 1987.
• “The Tokugawa Legacy: A Survey”, Economic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4, December, 1987.
• “Education, Research and Economic Development in Thailand and the Republic of Korea”,
Osaka Economic Papers, Vol. 38, No. 1-2, September. 1988.
• “The Japanese Economy and Economic Policy in the 1930s”, R. G. Gregory and N. G.
Butlin, eds., Recovery from the Depression, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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• “Japan’s Balance of Payment Position and Its Long-term Outlook”, Kozo Yamamura, ed.,Japanese Investment in the United States: Should We Be Concerned?, Seattle, WA: Societyfor Japanese Studies, 1989.
• “ ASEAN Countries: Background and Prospect”, Osaka Economic Papers, Vol. 38, Nos.
3-4, March. 1989.
• “Japan’s Post-War Growth in Historical Perspective”, Japan Forum, Vol. 3, No. 1, April,
1991.
• “The Rise of East Asia and Recent External Shock”, Lawrence R. Klein ed, A Quest fora more Stable World Economic System-Restructuring at a Time of Cyclical Adjustment,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, DORDRECHT, Boston and London: 1993.
• “Economic Policy and Economic Welfare in Japan since 1980”, John Y. T. Kuark ed.,Comparative Asian Economies, Greenwich & London: JAI Press, 1996.
• “Did Japan Ever Suﬀer from a Shortage of Natural Resources Before World War II?” The
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 106, 1996.
• “Discipline, Interdisciplinary Approach and International Orientation in Area Studies”,
Japan-USA Area Studies Conference, ed. by Matsubara Masatake and John Campbell,
National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Osaka, 1997.
• “The Japanese Economy in the Nineteen Nineties”, Agenda 6 (3), 251-60, September, 1999.
• “Alternative Theories of Southeast Asian Development. A Japanese Perspective”, Asian
Journal of Social Science 30 (3),November 2002.
• Comment on “Changes in the Sources of Modern Economic Growth: Japan Compared withthe United States”, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 16(2), 2002.
• “Changes in the Sources of Modern Economic Growth: Japan Compared with the UnitedStates: Rejoinder to Hayami and Ogasawara”, Journal of the Japanese and International
Economies, 16 (2), 2002.

Presentations in Confrences and Seminars (In English)• “Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Japan”, Economic History Association, AnnualMeeting (Yale University), September 1965.
• “Quantitative Study of the Emergence of Wage Diﬀerentials in the Japanese ManufacturingIndustry”, The Annual Meetings of the Econometric Society: The Second Far Eastern
Conference, Japan Economic Research Center, June 1967.
• “Modern Economists’ views on Japanese Economy-Survey”, Conference on the State of
Research and Teaching on Japanese Economy, Social Science Research Council (New YorkCity) March. 1969.
• “The Evolution of Dualistic Wage Structure”, Conference on Industrialization and its Consequences for Modern Japan (University of Washington) August, 20-24. 1973.

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• “American Impact on the Japanese Economy”, Asia and Pacific Regional Conference ofAmerican Studies Specialists, July, 6, 1975.
• “Overall Evaluation of the Present and Future Japanese Economy”, International Conference on the Japanese Economy on the Basis of the Brookings Study, April, 8, 1976. Japan
Economic Research Center.
• “Resources in Japan’s Modern Economic Growth”, Conference on Resources in Economic
History, Vi11a Be11agio, Italy, Apri1, 12-18, 1977.
• “Resources in Japan’s Development”, Fifth World Congress of the International Economic
Association, August. 29-September, 3, 1977, Tokyo.
• “Impact of ASEAN on the Asia-Pacific Regions”, Tenth Pacific Trade and Development
Conference, Australian National University, March, 19-23, 1979.
• “Salient Features of Japanese Economic Growth in the Post-Meiji Era”, Conference on A
Comparative Study of Patterns of Economic Development, Japan and Thailand, Pattaya,
October 10-12, 1980.
• “Trade and Investment Patterns between Japan and Southeast Asia and Their FutureProspect”, Conference on the United States-Japan and on Southeast Asia: The Issues ofInterdependence”, Hawaii, December. 14-18, 1983.
• “The Tokugawa Legacy, A Survey”, Ninth International Economic History Congress. Bern.
August 28, 1986.
• “The Rise of East Asia, Recent External Shocks and the Balance in Current Account”,International Symposium on “A Quest for a More Stable World Economic System”, Osaka(Royal Hotel), October, 22-25, 1990.
• “Emerging Role of the Private Sector in the Pacific Region-Summary”, Pacific Economic
Cooperation Conference, Eighth Meeting, Singapore, March, 1991.
• “Changing Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment in the Pacific Region-Summary”, Pacific
Economic Cooperation Council, Ninth Meeting, San Francisco, September, 1992.
• “Natural Resources in Japanese Economic History, 1800-1940”, Cliometric Society=American
Economic Association, January. 1994.
• “Population Dynamics in the Nineteenth Century: with Special Reference to the Declinein Fertility”, Japanese Association for American Studies, April, 1994.
• “The Economic History of Southeast Asia through Japanese Glasses, 1970-1990,” EconomicHistory Association, October 1994.
• “Toward a Neoclassical Radical Economics of Development,” Japanese Economic Association, September, 1995.
• “The Role of the Government in Meiji Japan,” Japan Association for Asian Studies, April,
1996.
• “Towards a Neoclassical Radical Economics of Development”, East Asian Economic Association, 1996.

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• “Fiscal Policy, Growth and the Burden of the Public Debt in Japan, 1990-1998,” Japanese
Economic Association, October, 1999.
• “Reassessing the Economic Growth of the Asian NIES, 1966-1997,” Asian Studies Conference in Japan, June 2000.
• “Reassessing the Economic Growth of the Asian NIES, 1966-1997,” Western Economic
Association International Conference, July 2000.
• “On Japanese Quantitative Economic History Group,” World Cliometric Conference, July2000.
• “Knowledge Across the Border-Meiji Japan and East Asia Now,” 2000 International Colloquium, October 2000.
• “Reassessing the Economic Growth of the Asian NIES”, All UC Group Conference on
Convergence and Divergence in Historical Perspective, Nov 2002.

Note• “Economists and Society in Postwar Japan”, Japanese Economic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3,Spring, 1977.

Book Review• Berrill, Kenneth ed., Economic Development with Special Reference to East Asia, London:
Macmillan, 1964, [Rural Economic Problems, Vol, II, No. 2, November, 1965].
• Lockwood, William W. ed., The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1965, [Economic History Review, Second Series, Vol. XX,
No. 1, April, 1967].
• Ohkawa Kazushi and Henry Rosovsky, Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in
the Twentieth Century, Washington, D. C. : The Brookings Institution, 1973 [DevelopingEconomies, Vol. XII, No. 1, March, 1974].
• Hugh Patrick and Henry Rosovsky, eds., Asia’s New Giant: How the Japanese Economy
Works, Washington, D. C. : The Brookings Institution, 1976,[Journal of Japanese Studies,Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter, 1977].
• Orville John MacDiarmid, Unskilled Labor for Development: Its Economic Cost, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, [Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XVI,
September, 1978].
• Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 19251975, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982, [Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLIII,No. 2, June, 1983].
• Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987, [Journal of the Japanese and InternationalEconomies, Vol. 3, No. 3, September, 1989].
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Airtcle in Newspapers and Journals• “The Crisis is God”, Trade and Industry (Singapore), June.1973.
• “Japan’s Economy Today: Crowing Pains”, Financial Post (Bangkok), October.26.1973.
• “Japan’s Economic Ties with SE area”, Financial Post (Bangkok), November.1.1973.
• “Future of Thai-Japanese Economic Ties”, Financial Post (Bangkok), November.8.1973.
• “Advance of Corporations Overseas Rapidly Grows”, The Japan Economic Journal, January.28.1975.
• “The Terms of Trade Have Started to Deteriorate”, The Japan Economic Journal, August.10.1976.
• “Japan Should Encourage Foreign Investment to Avoid Isolation”, The Japan EconomicJournal, December.13.1977.
• “Economic Assistance Policy Needs Overhaul”, Look Japan, April.10.1982.
• “Jumpstart Japan’s Economy with a Big Fiscal Stimulus” The Japan Times, March 1,
1993.
• “Cliometrics in Japan,” The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society, Feb 1994 Vol.9, No.1.
• “Vicious Cycle of Resourcelessness,” Look Japan, April 1997.
• “Economic Doomsayers Are Oﬀ the Mark” Japan Times, March 23, 2000.
• “An Interview with Yasukichi Yasuba,”The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society, summer
2005 vol.20, No.2.

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