This volume marks the first English translation of Toshihiro Tanaka's research outside Japan, offering a rare opportunity for international scholars to explore the relationship between Western economic thought and Japan. Rigorous in its analysis and broad in scope, the volume is structured in five parts that cut a path through classical economics and the Scottish Enlightenment, through to the lectures of modern and neoclassical economics, before concluding with studies in the influence of American and Australian economics in Japan. Studies incorporate work from philosophers such as Bernard...