Prof. Tamotsu Nishizawa, Ph.D.

Tamotsu Nishizawa is Professor of Economics at Teikyo University, Japan. In September 2014 he is a guest of the research unit Inequality and Social Policy. His specialization is the history of economic thought in Great Britain during the 19th and 20th Century. He is currently conducting research on the founding period of welfare economics and the welfare state, concentrating on the writings of Marshall, Pigou, Hobson and Tokuzo Fukuda from Japan. He is also exploring the history of neoliberal economists in Japan..