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Michio Morishima (July 18, 1923 - July 13,2004)
was Japan|Japanese economist and emeritus
professor of London School of Economics|LSE, John
R. Hicks|Sir John Hicks Professor of LSE. He was
also emeritus professor of Osaka University and a
member of the British Academy.

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
http://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/index-e.html
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, London school of Economics|LSE.
 
In 1965, he became the first Japanese president of
the Econometrics|Econometric Society. It is said
that the most enthusiastic supporter of Morishima
was John R. Hicks|John Hicks.

He was the originator of the project that resulted
in the establishment of the Suntory-Toyota
Foundation and the Suntory and Toyota
International Centres for Economic and Related
Disciplines (http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/default.asp
STICERD) at LSE. He was STICERD's first chairman.
In 1991 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the
School.

(Refer to LSE HP
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformati
onOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2004/Michio_Morish
ima.htm LSE News archive, Michio Morishima)

==Research==
He studied Mathmatical economics and his principal
economic interests were in general equilibrium
theory. Morishima's economic theory worked towards
the accommodation of John von Neumann|von
Neumann's 1937 multi-sectoral growth model to a
general equilibrium model. His research reviewed
the works of Karl Marx|Marx and LÊon
Walras|Walras. Considering the work of these
theorists to be David Ricardo|Ricardian, his
research worked to show that the modification of
them along von Neumann lines elucidates the
theoretical similarities and differences between
the positions.

==Education==
1946 graduated Faculty of Economics, Kyoto
University

==Professional experience==
1948 assistant at Kyoto University

1950 lecturer at Kyoto University

1950 assistant professor at Kyoto University

1951 assosiate professor at Osaka University

1963 professor of Economics at Osaka
University

1966 professor of
http://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/index-e.html ISER
(Institute of Social and Economic Research) at
Osaka University

1968 visiting professor at University of Essex

1969 Keynes visiting professor at University of
Essex

1970 professor at London school of
Economics|LSE

1982 John R. Hicks|Sir John Hicks professor at
London school of Economics|LSE


==Publications==
*Equilibrium, Stability and Growth (1964)
*Theory of Economic Growth (1969)
*Marx's Economics (1973)
*The Economic Theory of Modern Society (1976)
*Why has Japan 'succeeded'? (1982)
*The Economics of Industrial Society (1984).

==External links==
*http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp Kyoto University
*http://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/index-e.html
Institute of Scial and Economic Reseach, Osaka
University
*http://www.lse.ac.uk/ London School Economics
(LSE)
*http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/default.asp The
Suntory-Toyota Foundation and the Suntory and
Toyota International Centres for Economic and
Related Disciplines (STICERD) at LSE