The City As Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. in as new dust-jacket. Quarto in pale grey illus jacket; xii, 348 pages: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index. "In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in tbe late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself early on as a people-centered, rather than a state-centered, national economist. After three years of advanced study in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, during which he engaged Marxism and later steeped himself in the exciting new field of social economics, Seki was transformed into a progressive."--Jacket. Contents: Introduction: Seki Hajime and Social Progressivism in Prewar Japan -- 1. A Portrait of the Economist as a Young Man -- 2. The People's National Economy -- 3. Class and Nation -- 4. Toward a Modern Moral Economy -- 5. A New Urbanism. 6. The Livable City. / Economists -- Japan -- Biography.  Mayors -- Japan -- Biography.  Économistes -- Japon -- Biographies.  Maires -- Japon -- Biographies.  15.75 history of Asia.  Economic history.  Economists.  Mayors.  Burgemeesters.  Economen.  Economists -- Japan -- Biography.  Mayors -- Japan -- Biography.  Seki Hajime, 1873-1935.  Genre/Form: (v) Biographies.  Biographies. 1918-1945  Osaka (Japan) -- Economic conditions.  Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.  Ōsaka (Japon) -- Conditions économiques.  Japon -- Conditions économiques -- 1918-1945.  Japan.  Japan -- Osaka.  Osaka (Japan) -- Economic conditions.  Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.