Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-285) and index.

Preliminary Material / B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits -- Introduction. The Autonomy Of Market Activity And The Emergence Of Keizai Thought / Mark Metzler and Gregory Smits -- Money And The State: Medieval Precursors Of The Early Modern Economy / Ethan Segal -- Economic Thought Concerning Freedom And Control / Kawaguchi Hiroshi -- Guiding Horses With Rotten Reins: Economic Thought In The Eighteenth-Century Kingdom Of Ryukyu / Gregory Smits -- The Shift to Domestic Sugar and the Ideology of ‘The National Interest’ / Ochiai Kō -- A Domain Doctor And Shogunal Policies / Bettina Gramlich-Oka -- The Economic Thought Of Shjōi Kōki And The Tenpō Reforms In Saga Domain / Jan Sýkora -- Confucian Banking: The Community Granary (Shasō) In Rhetoric And Practice / Mark J. Ravina -- From Tokugawa To Meiji: The Economic Thought Of A Local Entrepreneur In The Early Meiji Era / Ishii Sumiyo -- Policy Space, Polarities, And Regimes / Mark Metzler -- Glossary / B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits -- References / B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits -- Index / B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits.

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This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capitalism. In discussing such topics as money and the state, freedom and control, national interest ideology, shogunal politics and networks, case studies of the Saga Domain and Ryukyu Kingdom, Confucian banking, early Meiji entrepreneurship, and relationships between macroeconomic fluctuations and policy, the essays here deepen and revise our understanding of early-modern Japan. They also enlarge and refine the analytical vocabulary for describing early-modern economic thought and policy, thereby raising issues of interest to scholars of world history and economic thought outside of Japan or East Asia.