Theories and Realities of Evolution and Instability of Money and Financial Systems

这一研究项目旨在全面重新考虑货币和金融系统的理论和实际现实及其不稳定性的参考框架。它希望利用日本马克思主义经济学家在这一领域的研究积累，并与最近西方马克思主义学派的外国学者合作。通过与伦敦大学的C. Lapavitsas博士共同工作，实现了与西方学者合作的期望。加州大学河滨分校的G. Dymski教授和牛津大学的A. Glyn博士给我们提出了有益的意见和建议。2000年7月在悉尼麦考瑞大学的一次会议，2000年9月和2001年7月分别访问伦敦大学一周，都是促进本研究项目的学术交流的绝佳机会。在国教院大学，与国内各大学的专业学术人员进行几乎每月一次的学习会议也很有帮助。在其内容中，本研究广泛地重新审视了从18世纪到当代凯恩斯主义者和后凯恩斯主义者的主要货币和金融理论。同时，试图在当代资本主义漫长的历史发展背景下考察货币金融的动态性与不稳定性的逻辑。因此，它一定也对理论经济学、经济理论史和当代资本主义理论做出了贡献。这一研究项目的主要成果被纳入日本的一本书，伊藤和拉帕维察斯的《货币和金融的政治经济学》（东京：lwanami-shoten， 2002）等，以相当令人满意地完成了这个项目。

This research project aimed at comprehensive reconsideration of the frame of reference for the theories and practical realities of the systems of money and finance and their instability. It expected to utilize the accumulation of researches in this field among Japanese Marxian economists, and cooperation with foreign scholars in the recent Western Marxian school. The expectation to cooperate with Western scholars was substantially realized by joint working with Dr. C. Lapavitsas in the University of London. Professor G. Dymski in California University, Riverside and Dr. A. Glyn in Oxford University kindly gave us useful comments and suggestions. A conference at Macquarie University, Sidney in July 2000, my visits to the University of London each for a week in September 2000, and in July 2001 were all excellent opportunities for academic exchange to promote this research project. Almost monthly study meetings at Kokugakuin University with professional academic members in various domestic universities were also quite helpful. In its contents, this research reexamined broadly major theories of money and finance from the 18th century up to contemporary Keynesians and post-Keynesians. At the same time, it attempted to investigate into the logic of dynamism and instability of money and finance in contemporary capitalism against the background of their long historical development. It must have thus contributed also to theoretical economics, history of economic theories, and the theory of contemporary capitalism. The major parts of the results of this research project were put into a Japanese book, M. Itoh and C. Lapavitsas, Political Economy of Money and Finance (Tokyo: lwanami-shoten, 2002) among others, to complete the project rather satisfactorily.