Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofumi Uzawa
Native name	宇沢 弘文
Born	July 21, 1928 Yonago, Tottori, Japan
Died	September 18, 2014 (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Institution	Stanford University University of California at Berkeley University of Chicago University of Tokyo Chuo University Doshisha University
Field	Mathematical economics
Alma mater	University of Tokyo (B.Math, 1951) Stanford University Tohoku University (Ph.D., 1962)
Doctoral students	David Cass Harl Ryder Karl Shell Miguel Sidrauski
Influences	Shokichi Iyanaga Joichi Suetsuna Kenneth Arrow Hajime Kawakami
Influenced	George A. Akerlof Joseph Stiglitz Katsuhito Iwai Hiroshi Yoshikawa Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Hitoshi Matsushima
Contributions	Uzawa two-sector growth model Uzawa condition
Awards	Person of Cultural Merit (1983) Order of Culture (1997) Blue Planet Prize (2009)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢 弘文 Uzawa Hirofumi, July 21, 1928 – September 18, 2014) was a Japanese economist.

Biography

Uzawa was born on July 21, 1928, in Yonago, Tottori.

He graduated from the Mathematics Department of the University of Tokyo in 1951; special research student from 1951 to 1953. At that time, he discovered the true nature of economics in the words of John Ruskin, “There is no wealth, but life.” which was quoted in the foreword to Tale of Poverty (貧乏物語 binbō monogatari) by Hajime Kawakami, and decided to study economics.^[1]

A paper on decentralized economic planning written by him caught the eye of Kenneth Arrow at the Stanford University, he went to study Economics at Stanford University in 1956 with Fulbright fellowship, and became a research assistant, then assistant professor in 1956, then assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1960, and then associate professor at Stanford in 1961.^[1] Meanwhile, in 1962, he received a Ph.D. from Tohoku University.^[2] He afterwards was professor at the University of Chicago in 1964, and later assumed the position of professor of the Department of Economics at Tokyo University in 1969. He also taught at Niigata University, Chuo University, and United Nations University.^[3] Incidentally Joseph E. Stiglitz and George A. Akerlof did research under Uzawa at the University of Chicago.^[4][1]

Uzawa was a senior fellow at the social, commonness, and capital research center of Doshisha University. He held the position of the president of the Econometric Society from 1976 to 1977.

Contributions

Uzawa initiated the field of mathematical economics in postwar days and formulated the growth theory of neoclassical economics. This is reflected in the Uzawa–Lucas model, the Uzawa iteration, and the Uzawa condition, among others.

Bibliography

Books

• Arrow, Kenneth J.; Hurwicz, Leonid; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1958). Studies in linear and non-linear programming. Stanford mathematical studies in the social sciences. 2. Redwood City, California: Stanford University Press.
• Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1969). Readings in the modern theory of economic growth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262190558.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1989). Preference, Production and Capital: Selected Papers of Hirofumi Uzawa. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521361743.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1989). Optimality, Equilibrium, and Growth: Selected Papers of Hirofumi Uzawa. Hongō, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 978-4130470414.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (2003). Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521823869.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (2005). Economic Analysis of Social Common Capital. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521847889.

Chapters in books

• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1958), "Iterative methods for concave programming", in Arrow, Kenneth J.; Hurwicz, Leonid; Uzawa, Hirofumi, Studies in linear and non-linear programming, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 154–165.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1960), "Preference and rational choice in the theory of consumption", in Arrow, Kenneth J.; Karlin, Samuel; Suppes, Patrick, Mathematical models in the social sciences, 1959: Proceedings of the first Stanford symposium, Stanford mathematical studies in the social sciences, IV, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 129–149, ISBN 9780804700214.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1968), "Time preference, the consumption function, and optimum asset holdings", in Wolfe, J.N., Value, Capital and Growth, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 485–504, ISBN 978-0852240205.
• Hurwicz, Leonid; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1971), "On the integrability of demand functions", in Chipman, John Somerset, Preferences, Utility and Demand, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, pp. 114–148, ISBN 978-0155710771.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1975), "Optimum Investment in Social Overhead Capital" (PDF), in Mills, Edwin S., Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems, NBER, pp. 9–26, ISBN 0-87014-267-4.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1991), "Global warming initiatives: the Pacific Rim", in Dornbusch, Rudiger; Poterba, James M., Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 275–321, ISBN 978-0262041263.

Selected journal articles

• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1956). "Note on preference and axioms of choice". Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 8 (1): 35–40. doi:10.1007/BF02863564.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1957). "Note on the Rational Selection of Decision Functions". Econometrica. 25 (1): 166–174. doi:10.2307/1907749. JSTOR 1907749.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1958). "A note on the Menger-Wieser theory of imputation". Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie. 18 (3): 318–334. doi:10.1007/BF01317023.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1959). "Prices of the Factors of Production in International Trade". Econometrica. 27 (3): 448–468. doi:10.2307/1909471. JSTOR 1909471.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1960). "Locally Most Powerful Rank Tests for Two-Sample Problems". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 31 (3): 685–702. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177705795. JSTOR 2237578.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1960). "Walras' Tâtonnement in the Theory of Exchange" (PDF). Review of Economic Studies. 27 (3): 182–194. doi:10.2307/2296080. JSTOR 2296080.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1960). "Market Mechanisms and Mathematical Programming". Econometrica. 28 (4): 872–881. doi:10.2307/1907569. JSTOR 1907569.
• Nikaidô, Hukukane; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1960). "Stability and Non-Negativity in a Walrasian Tâtonnement Process". International Economic Review. 1 (1): 50–59. doi:10.2307/2525408.
• Arrow, Kenneth J.; Hurwicz, Leonid; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "Constraint qualifications in maximization problems". Naval Research Logistics. 8 (2): 175–191. doi:10.1002/nav.3800080206.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "On a Two-Sector Model of Economic Growth". Review of Economic Studies. 29 (1): 40–47. doi:10.2307/2296180. JSTOR 2296180.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "Neutral Inventions and the Stability of Growth Equilibrium". Review of Economic Studies. 28 (2): 117–124. doi:10.2307/2295709. JSTOR 2295709.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "The Stability of Dynamic Processes" (PDF). Econometrica. 29 (4): 617–631. doi:10.2307/1911808. JSTOR 1911808.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1962). "On the Stability of Edgeworth's Barter Process" (PDF). International Economic Review. 3 (2): 218–232. doi:10.2307/2525426. JSTOR 2525426.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1962). "Walras's Existence Theorem and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem". Economic Studies Quarterly. 13 (1): 59–62.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1962). "Aggregative Convexity and the Existence of Competitive Equilibrium". Economic Studies Quarterly. 12 (2): 52–60.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1962). "Production Functions with Constant Elasticities of Substitution". Review of Economic Studies. 29 (4): 291–299. doi:10.2307/2296305. JSTOR 2296305.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1963). "On a Two-Sector Model of Economic Growth II". Review of Economic Studies. 30 (2): 105–118. doi:10.2307/2295808. JSTOR 2295808.
• Goldman, S. M.; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1964). "A Note on Separability in Demand Analysis". Econometrica. 32 (3): 387–398. doi:10.2307/1913043. JSTOR 1913043.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1964). "A Note on Professor Solow's Model of Technical Progress". Economic Studies Quarterly. 14 (3): 63–68.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1964). "Optimal Growth in a Two-Sector Model of Capital Accumulation". Review of Economic Studies. 31 (1): 1–24. doi:10.2307/2295932. JSTOR 2295932.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1964). "Duality Principles in the Theory of Cost and Production". International Economic Review. 5 (2): 216–220. doi:10.2307/2525564. JSTOR 2525564.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1965). "Optimum Technical Change in an Aggregative Model of Economic Growth" (PDF). International Economic Review. 6 (1): 18–31. doi:10.2307/2525621. JSTOR 2525621.
• Oniki, Hajime; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1965). "Patterns of Trade and Investment in a Dynamic Model of International Trade". Review of Economic Studies. 32 (1): 15–38. doi:10.2307/2296328. JSTOR 2296328.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1969). "Time Preference and the Penrose Effect in a Two-Class Model of Economic Growth" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy. 77 (4): 628–652. doi:10.1086/259554. JSTOR 1829323.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1971). "Diffusion of Inflationary Processes in a Dynamic Model of International Trade". Economic Studies Quarterly. 22 (1): 14–37.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1974). "Sur la théorie économique du capital collectif social". Cahiers du Séminaire d'Économétrie (15): 101–122. doi:10.2307/20075467. JSTOR 20075467.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1993). "Imputed prices of greenhouse gases and land forests". Renewable Energy. 3 (4–5): 499–511. doi:10.1016/0960-1481(93)90116-X.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1996). "Environment and Development Economics". Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. 1 (01): 1–2. doi:10.1017/S1355770X00000322.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1996). "An endogenous rate of time preference, the Penrose effect, and dynamic optimality of environmental quality". PNAS. 93 (12): 5770–5776. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.12.5770.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1999). "Global warming as a cooperative game". Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. 2 (1): 1–37. doi:10.1007/BF03353901.

Working Papers

• Koopmans, Tjalling C.; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1982). "Constancy and Constant Differences of Price Elasticities of Demand," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 654, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.

References

1. "2009 Blue Planet Prize Commemorative Lectures" (PDF). The Asahi Glass Foundation. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
2. "CiNii Dissertations - レオン・ワルラスの一般均衡理論に関する諸研究". CiNii. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
3. "Leading Japanese economist Hirofumi Uzawa dies at 86". Asahi Shimbun. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
4. "Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved May 12, 2016.

Further reading

• Ikeo, Aiko (2014). A History of Economic Science in Japan: The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-74753-6.

External links

• Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara and Karl Shell (2009). "An Interview with Hirofumi Uzawa". Macroeconomic Dynamics. 13: 390–420. doi:10.1017/S1365100509080213.
• "An Interview with Hirofumi Uzawa, 2009 (in Czech)". Kovanda, Lukas. 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
• Hirofumi Uzawa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project