We are very pleased to inform you that Professor Takashi Oshio at Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University was appointed as the new director of the HIAS GLECS in April of 2020. He organized immediately the first meeting online with project leaders of four research projects which are currently under taken at the HIAS GLECS. […]
In the evening of 23 March and in the early morning of 24 March, we held online conference “the Philosophy of the Social Sciences:Human Dignity and Well-being”. Though, only a limited amount of time was available for the preparation after the conference had been decided to be held online instead of at Sano Shoin Hall, […]
Updated information on 6 March: Due to novel coronavirus, this conference will be held online instead of at Sano Shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University. Registrants will get the information on how to participate in the online conference. Deadline of the registration is 11 March. Please send your name, affiliation, participating date(s) to pssmarch2020(at)ier.hit-u.ac.jp. —— end of […]
Director of the HIAS GLECS Kyoji Fukao has won the Larry Neal Prize 2019 for the best article in Explorations in Economics History. The article “Japan and the Great Divergence, 730—1874” was co-authored with Jean-Pascal Bassino, Bishnupriya Gupta, Stephen Broadberry and Masanori Takashima. We are very delighted with this news that the authors having some […]
We are pleased to inform you that we fixed the schedule of HSI2019—The 5th Hitotsubashi Summer Institute as shown below. Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 July: Microeconomic Theory Wednesday 31 July and Thursday 1 August (morning): International Trade and FDI Thursday 1 (efternoon) and Friday 2 August: Economic Development Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August: […]
A full-page advertisement on the 4th Policy Forum appeared in the evening paper of The Nikkei dated 28 December. Link is provided here. On 11 November at Hitotsubashi Hall, we co-hosted the event titled the 4th Policy Forum of Hitotsubashi University in 30th Fiscal Year of Heisei “Social Progress for What (Whom)?” with IPSP (International […]
HIAS GLECS will be co-hosting Hayami Conference 2018 which will be held at GRIPS on 15 December from 9:30 to 17:45. Please register from here. Deadline is 9 December. Program and papers will be uploaded here. Date Saturday 15 December, 2018 Venue 1F A,B, & C at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/ […]
