NOHARA, Shinji

NOHARA, Shinji

Name / Position

NOHARA, Shinji / Associate Professor

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E-mail

nohara[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017 Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (Visiting research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge)
March 2012 Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics (Economics)
(September 2008-May 2009) McGill University, Montreal (Faculty of Arts)
March 2006 Kyoto University, Faculty of Economics, M. A.
March 2004 Kyoto University, Faculty of Economics, B. A.

Professional Experience

November 2018-present Associate Professor of the University of Tokyo (Graduate School of Economics)
April 2014-October 2018 Assistant Professor of the University of Tokyo (Graduate School of Economics)
April 2012-March 2014 Part-Time Lecturer of Kansai University
September 2011-March 2014 Part-Time Lecturer of Kyoto Dai-ichi Nurse School
October 2010-March 2014 Part-Time Lecturer of Kyoto University
September 2011-March 2014 Part-Time Lecturer of Konan University

Research Field

history of economic and social thought, Adam Smith, the Scottish (and French) Enlightenment, Japanese economic thought, and economic philosophy.

Research Theme

I have been studying the history of economic and social thought, especially Adam Smith, and the Enlightenment. As an intellectual historian, I am interested in intellectual and historical background of the Enlightenment.

Through studying the Enlightenment, I try to understand what modernity is, and what capitalism is. Adam Smith was known as the founder of political economy. He grasped the essence of capitalism. He, however, was a moral philosopher who lived in particular context. Understanding the context can deepen our recognition of capitalism.

Furthermore, I also research economic methodology and economic philosophy.

I also investigate Japanese history of economics. I wrote a monograph on it.

Publications

Articles

  • “The Transformation of Liberalism and Adam Smith in Japan: How Liberalism Survived Its Crises,” Adam Smith Review, 2025
  • “Historical thinking in Adam Smith: the rise of the age of capital”, The East Asia Journal of British History, 9, 2025.
  • “Adam Smith's colonial thought in South America”, Revue d'études benthamienne,  2023.
  • “The transformation of Adam Smith's political economy in Japan: the struggle between Yukichi Fukuzawa and Shigeki Nishimura over wealth and virtue”, Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 21(1), 2023.
  • “An unpublished letter from Adam Smith”, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30 (1), 2023.
  • “The reception of Adam Smith in Japan: the formation of the idea of Shimin Shakai, or civil society, by Zenya Takashima before the end of World War II,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2022.
  • “Adam Smith's science of commerce: the effect of communication,” Adam Smith Review, 11, 2018 
  • “In the Library of Adam Smith,” in P. J. Corfield and L. Hannan (eds.), Changing arts of communication in the eighteenth century, Honoré Champion, 2017
  • “Hume and Smith on morality and war,” in A. Rosselli and Y. Ikeda (eds.), War in the history of economic thought: economists and the question of war, 2017, London: Routledge
  • “Bolingbroke and his Agnostic-Rational View of the World: Searching for the Religious Foundation of the Enlightenment,” The Kyoto Economic Review, Vol. 80(1), 2011
  • “Adam Smith on the cyclicity of the rise and fall of civilization”, The Kyoto Economic Review, Vol. 79(1), 2010

Books and Monographs

  • Commerce and strangers in Adam Smith, Springer, 2018

Other Professional Activities and Awards