東浦庄治の地代学説研究草稿 : 紹介と解説 (その1)

This paper will introduce some manuscripts on rent theory written by HIGASHIURA
Shoji. HIGASHIURA was an outstanding the most excellent agricultural economist and was
also a powerful agricultural association leader in pre-World War II Japan. But he died
Just after defeat the War leaving his manuscripts on rent theory in the hands of his
daughter，unpublished.
Studies on rent theory after WWII in Japan concentrated on the rent theory of K.
MARX. However，leading scholars returned to theory of A. RICARDO as the result of thier
study of MARX. The manuscripts of HIGASHIURA，on the contrary，focussed on the critics
of RICARDO'S theory，thus enabling HIGASHIURA to relativize RICARDO'S theory. That is the
reason why this paper is bringing the manuscripts of HIGASHIURA before the public eye a
half century after they were written.
This paper will introduce two chapters ; one on the rent theory of Richard Jhonse，
another on the rent theory of Henry Carey. The former criticized RICARDO'S rent theory
from a peasant rent point of view，and the latter criticized RICARDO from a dynamics point
of view.