Michio Morishima
| Michio Morishima | |
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| Born |
July 18, 1923 Osaka Prefecture |
| Died | July 13, 2004 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Institution |
London School of Economics Osaka University |
| Field | Econometrics |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Doctoral students |
Christopher A. Pissarides |
| Awards | Order of Culture |
Michio Morishima (森嶋 通夫 Morishima Michio?, July 18, 1923 – July 13, 2004) was a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970–88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics. He was also emeritus professor of Osaka University and a member of the British Academy.
In 1976 he was a recipient of the Order of Culture (文化勲章, Bunka-kunshō), a lifetime award that is Japan's equivalent of a Nobel Prize.
He studied economics and sociology under Yasuma Takada. In 1946 he graduated Kyoto University and taught at Kyoto University and Osaka University. And he established Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) of Osaka University with Yasuma Takada. In 1968, he went to Britain and taught at University of Essex, LSE.
In 1960 he established with Nobel-laureate Lawrence R. Klein from the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania the International Economic Review (today published by Penn), which grew to become one of the leading journals in economics in the world. In 1965, he became the first Japanese president of the Econometric Society. It is said that the most enthusiastic supporter of Morishima was John Hicks.
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