Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢 弘文, Uzawa Hirofumi?, July 21, 1928 - September 18, 2014) was a Japanese economist, professor emeritus of University of Tokyo, and a member of the Japan Academy.

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.

Joseph E. Stiglitz and George A. Akerlof did research under Uzawa at the University of Chicago.

Career

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.

In 1956, because 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 an 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. Meanwhile, in 1962, he received a Ph.D. from Tohoku University. 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.

Uzawa was a senior fellow at the social, commonness, and capital research center of Doshisha University. He held the position of the chairman of the Econometric Society from 1976 to 1977. He became a member of the Japan Academy in 1989. He was listed in the Japanese Culture Merit in 1983, and won the Order of Culture in 1997.

publications

Books

• Arrow, Kenneth J.; Hurwicz, Leonid; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1958). Studies in linear and non-linear programming. Redwood City, California: Stanford University Press. ASIN B0006AVO2C.
• 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: 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.

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. JSTOR 2237578.
• 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 (1960). "Walras' Tâtonnement in the Theory of Exchange". Review of Economic Studies 27 (3): 182-194. 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. JSTOR 2296180.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "A Comment on Newman's "Complete Ordering and Revealed Preference"". Review of Economic Studies 28 (2): 140-141.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "Neutral Inventions and the Stability of Growth Equilibrium". Review of Economic Studies 28 (2): 117-124. JSTOR 2295709.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1961). "The Stability of Dynamic Processes" (PDF). Econometrica 29 (4): 617-631. JSTOR 1911808.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1962). "On the Stability of Edgeworth's Barter Process". 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. 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. 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.
• Yasui, Takuma; Uzawa, Hirofumi (1964). "On an Akerman-Wicksellian Model of Capital Accumulation". Economic Studies Quarterly 14 (2): 1-10.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1965). "Optimum Technical Change in an Aggregative Model of Economic Growth" (PDF). International Economic Review 6 (1): 18-31. 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. JSTOR 2296328.
• 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, ISBN 978-0852240205.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1969). "Time Preference and the Penrose Effect in a Two-Class Model of Economic Growth". Journal of Political Economy 77 (4): 628-652. 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 (1972). "Japan's Isolation in the International Arena — Over the New Stage of Currency Adjustment". Japanese Economic Studies 1 (1): 7-30. doi:10.2753/JES1097-203X01017.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1974). "Sur la théorie économique du capital collectif social". Cahiers du Séminaire d'Économétrie (15): 101-122. JSTOR 20075467.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1983). "Hiroyuki Odagiri, The Theory of Growth in a Corporate Economy: Management Preference Research and Development and Economic Growth". Economic Review: 82-83.
• 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.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1999). "Global warming as a cooperative game". Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 2 (1): 1-37. doi:10.1007/BF03353901.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (2010). "Global Warming, Proportional Carbon Taxes, and International Fund for Atmospheric Stabilization". Review of Development Economics 14 (1): 1-19. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9361.2009.00528.x.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (2010). "Social Common Capital, Imputed Price, and Sustainable Development". Macroeconomic Dynamics 14 (2): 149-165. doi:10.1017/S1365100509090038.

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.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (2008). "Global Warming, Imputed Prices, and Sustainable Development," DEGIT Conference Papers c013_014, DEGIT, Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade.

Chapters

• Uzawa, Hirofumi (1975). "Optimum Investment in Social Overhead Capital," NBER Chapters, in: Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems, pages 9-26 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Uzawa, Hirofumi (2004). "Life and Philosophy," Chapters, in: Reflections of Eminent Economists, chapter 25 Edward Elgar Publishing.

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