Katsuhito Iwai
| Katsuhito Iwai | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 岩井 克人 |
| Born |
February 13, 1947 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Spouse(s) | Minae Mizumura |
| Institution |
International Christian University Musashino University University of Siena University of Pennsylvania Princeton University University of Tokyo Cowles Foundation Yale University University of California, Berkeley |
| Field | Disequilibrium macroeconomics |
| Alma mater |
MIT (Ph.D. 1972) University of Tokyo (B.A. 1969) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Robert Solow |
| Doctoral students |
Willem Buiter |
| Influences |
Knut Wicksell Paul Samuelson Hirofumi Uzawa |
Katsuhito Iwai (岩井 克人 Iwai Katsuhito, born February 13, 1947) is a Japanese economist and critic. He has studied the theory of money, macro dynamics, evolutionary economics, philosophy of corporation, fiduciary law, and history of social thoughts. His work includes the book, Disequilibrium Dynamics (Yale University Press, 1981), and many articles published in academic journals. He has also written many books and articles in newspapers and magazines for the general public on a wide array of subjects ranging from global capitalism, post-modernity, civil society, money and language to literature and movies. His keen observations and surprising analysis of the work by Shakespeare, Marx, J. S. G. Boggs, Ihara Saikaku have established him as one of the foremost essayists in Japan.
Katsuhito Iwai entered the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1965. After graduating in 1969, he went on to study economics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he received his Ph.D. in 1972.
He was an Assistant Research Economist at the University of California at Berkeley from 1972 to 1973 and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University from 1973 to 1979. He served as a Senior research Associate at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University from 1979 to 1981. Since then, he has been Associate Professor and then Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
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