- Hirofumi Uzawa
Hirofumi Uzawa (宇澤弘文 1928 - ) is a Japanese
economist ,professor emeritus ofTokyo University , and a member of theJapan Academy .Uzawa was born in
Yonago, Tottori . He majored inmathematics at Tokyo University, and went on to its graduate school, obtaining a doctorate in Mathematics. He went to study Economics atStanford University in 1956 with Fulbright fellowship, and became an assistant, thenassistant professor , and thenassociate professor at Stanford. He afterwards was assistant professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley andprofessor at theUniversity of Chicago , and later assumed the position of professor of the Department of Economics at Tokyo University in 1969. He also taught atNiigata University ,Chuo University , andUnited Nations University .Uzawa is currently serving as
senior faeroe at the social, commonness, and capital research center ofDoshisha University . He held the position of the chairman of theEconometric Society from 1976 to 1977. He became a member of the Japan Academy in 1989. He has been row inJapanese Culture Merit in 1983, and wonthe Order of Culture in 1997.Uzawa initiated the field of
mathematical economics in postwar days and formulated thegrowth theory ofneoclassical economics . This is reflected in theUzawa two-sector growth model and theUzawa condition , among others.
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