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Prof.Satoshi Fujii
(Professor of Kyoto University, Director of Resilience Research Unit at Kyoto University, and Special advisor to the Cabinet of Japan)
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Prof.Satoshi Fujii
(Professor of Kyoto University, Director of Resilience Research Unit at Kyoto University, and Special advisor to the Cabinet of Japan)
Satoshi Fujii (born 1968) is a Director of Resilience Research Unit. His research topic is pragmatic social and human sciences for public policies including economics, psychology, philosophy, urban management, and national land planning. He is also Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japanese government since December, 2012. His main work in the cabinet is New Deal policy that accounts for disaster prevention and mitigation.
His Major Writings : Theory of building national resilience.
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Dr. Ha-Joon Chang
(Economist, South Korea)
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) is one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics. Currently a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, Chang is the author of several widely-discussed policy books.
He has worked as a consultant for many international organisations, such as UNDP and the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank. He was awarded the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
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Mr. Keita Shibayama
(Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor of Shiga University, Japan)
His Major Writings : Silent and mighty depression.
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Dr.Emmanuel Todd
(Historian, anthropologist, France)
Emmanuel Todd (born 1951) is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), in Paris. His research examines the different types of families worldwide and how there are matching beliefs, ideologies and political systems, and the historical events involving these things.
He managed to predict the collapse of the Sovietic Union (La Chute finale, 1976), the weakening of the American system (Après l’Empire, 2002), and the Arab Spring (Le Rendez-vous des civilisations, with Youssef Courbage, 2007).
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「The divergence of nations and the crisis of globalization : a social anthropological perspective」
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Dr. Takeshi Nakano
(Critical writer and one-time Associate Professor of Kyoto University, Japan)
Takeshi Nakano (born 1971) is a Japanese critical writer. He had been an associate Professor at the Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University for two years (2010-2012). His research interests include economic nationalism, protectionism, international political economy and conservative thought. His article ‘Theorizing Economic Nationalism’ was awarded the annual ASEN/Nations and National Prize for 2003. His recent publication ‘New Theses on the History of Japanese Political Though’ (Chikuma 2012) was awarded the Shichihei Yamamoto Encouragement Prize for 2012. His other publication ‘Ruinous TPP’ is a bestselling publication.
His Major Writings : Theory of ruinous TPP,New Theses on the History of Japanese Political Thought, Against Free Trades.
Presentation Title
「Neoliberalism and Conservatism」
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Contact
Resilience Research Unit, Kyoto University
(Kanda, Miyakawa, Fujii)
Tel: +81-(0)75-383-3241
Email:resilience@trans.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp