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Koji is an assistant professor in business history at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Previously he has held postdoctoral positions at King's College London, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Cambridge, and was a recipient of a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship between 2012 and 2014. His first monograph, provisionally entitled "Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Projecting, Public Service and Distrust in Early Modern England" will be published by the Oxford University Press. He has been working on another book project on the South Sea Bubble of 1720. His other projects include an edited volume on the comparative analysis of stereotypes across politics, religion, economy and science in early modern England; and a journal special issue on morality and the market in Europe before the Industrial Revolution.
Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Public Service, Distrust, and 'Projecting' in Early Modern England
Koji Yamamoto
Oxford University Press Apr 2018 ISBN:9780198739173
Early modern England had a distinctive preoccupation with the social responsibilities of private businesses. This book explores for the first time how promises of public service in the economic sphere came to be abused, and how statesmen, playwrig...
Grietje Baars and Adré Spicer (eds.), The Corporation: A Critical, Interdisciplinary Handbook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 226-237 2017 [Refereed][Invited]
L'Europe des sciences et des techniques XVe-XVIIIe siècle: un dialogue des savoirs 125-132 2016 [Invited]
This is an invited contribution to the French textbook on the History of Science in early modern Europe, designed for those intending to take the history of science as part of their agrégation exam.
Le Crisi Finanziarie: Gestione, Implicazioni Sociali e Conseguenze nell'Età Preindustriale (Series: Fondazione Istituto internazionale di storia economica "F. Datini") 327-357 May 2016 [Refereed]
One key question over the South Sea Bubble of 1720 has been whether or not it was a ‘rational’ bubble as economists would now define it. The underlying analytic dichotomy between 'rational' and 'irrational' bubble seems to have hit a point of dimi...
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