The Japan Academy

Personal Information

 

Name

SAITO Osamu

 

Section

Section I, Third Subsection

Date of Election

2014/12/12

Speciality

Economic History, Historical Demography

Selected Bibliography

<主要著書>

  1. 『プロト工業化の時代:西欧と日本の比較史』(日本評論社, 1985年; 岩波現代文庫版,2013年)
  2. 『商家の世界・裏店の世界: 江戸と大阪の比較都市史』(リブロポート, 1987年); 改題改訂版,『江戸と大阪: 近代日本の都市起源』(NTT出版,2002年)
  3. 『比較史の遠近法』(NTT出版,1997年; 新版,書籍工房早山,2015年)
  4. 『賃金と労働と生活水準: 日本経済史における18-20世紀』(岩波書店,1998年)
  5. 『比較経済発展論: 歴史的アプローチ』(岩波書店,2008年)
  6. 『環境の経済史: 森林・市場・国家』(岩波書店,2014年)

<主要論文>

  1. ‘The labor market in Tokugawa Japan: wage differentials and the real wage level, 1727-1830’, Explorations in Economic History, vol. 15 (1978), pp.84-100.
  2. ‘Population and the peasant family economy in proto-industrial Japan’, Journal of Family History, vol. 8, no. 1 (1983), pp. 30-54.
  3. ‘Children's work, industrialism and the family economy in Japan, 1872-1926’, in H. Cunningham and P. P. Viazzo (eds.), Child Labour in Historical Perspective, 1800-1985 (Florence: Unicef International Child Development Centre, 1996), pp. 73-90; reprinted in K. Lieten and E. van Nederveen Meerkerk, eds, Child Labour's Global Past, 1650-2000 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 457-478.
  4. ‘Marriage, family labour and the stem family household: traditional Japan in a comparative perspective’, Continuity and Change, vol. 15, no. 1 (May 2000), pp. 17-45.
  5. 「前近代経済成長の2つのパターン: 徳川日本の比較史的位置」『社会経済史学』第70巻5号(2005年),519-39頁.
  6. ‘Land, labour and market forces in Tokugawa Japan’, Continuity and Change, vol. 24, no. 1 (May 2009), pp. 169-96.
  7. ‘Forest history and the Great Divergence: China, Japan, and the West compared’, Journal of Global History, vol. 4, issue 3 (2009), pp. 379-404.
  8. ‘Proto-industrialization and labour-intensive industrialization: reflections on Smithian growth and the role of skill intensity’, in G. Austin and K. Sugihara, eds., Labour-intensive Industrialization in Global History (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 85-106.
  9. ‘Was modern Japan a developmental state?’, in K. Otsuka and T. Shiraishi, eds., State and Development (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 23-45.
  10. ‘Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective’, Economic History Review, vol. 68, issue 2 (2015), pp. 399-419.
  11. ‘Climate, famine, and population in Japanese history: a long-term perspective’, in B. L. Batten and P. C. Brown, eds., Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From prehistory to the present (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015), pp. 213-29.
  12. 「1600年の全国人口: 17世紀人口経済史再構築の試み」『社会経済史学』第84巻1号(2018年), 3-23 頁.
  13. 「人口転換論を再考する: とくに死亡率低下局面をめぐって」『日本學士院紀要』第73巻1号(2018年),1-39頁.
  14. ‘The medieval origins of Smithian growth: the proliferation of occupations and commodities in Japan, 1261-1638’, Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 23, no. 2 (2020), pp. 205-24.
  15. ‘Population and human development since 1700’, in S. Broadberry and K. Fukao, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), vol. 1, pp. 289-311. [Romola Davenportと共著]
  16. ‘Two tales of pre-modern contractions: wage differentials in late medieval and early modern Japan’, in J.-C. Moreno García, ed., Markets and Exchanges in Pre-modern and Traditional Societies (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021), pp. 171-88.
  17. 「英国産業革命論の現在」『日本學士院紀要』第76巻2号(2022年),203-34頁.