Kagen

Japanese: 価原 - かげん
Kagen

This is an economics book written by Miura Baien around 1773 (An'ei 2). Baien applies his philosophy of "Riurigaku" to the economic problems of the time - fluctuations in servant wages, farmers leaving their villages, unstable agricultural product prices, etc. - and examines the fundamental relationships between crop yields, currency circulation, prices, and wages. Baien's analytical method of "Riurigaku" was systematized by absorbing Chinese natural philosophy from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and this book is noteworthy for its scientific method, which includes abstracting economic phenomena into a virtual island for consideration, and similarities with Western economics and academic methods have also been noted.

[Takao Shimazaki]

"The Miura Baien Collection, edited by Hirone Saegusa (Iwanami Bunko)"

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Japanese:

三浦梅園(ばいえん)が1773年(安永2)ごろに著した経済書。梅園の哲学「条理学」を当時の経済問題――奉公人賃銀の変動、農民の離村、農産物価格の不安定性など――に適用し、作物の豊凶・貨幣流通量・物価・労賃の間の基本的関係を考察している。その分析方法「条理学」は、明(みん)末清(しん)初の中国の自然哲学などを梅園が吸収して独自に体系化したものであるが、本書でも経済現象を仮想の一島に抽象化して考察するなど、その科学的方法は注目すべきものであり、欧米の経済学や学問的方法との類似も指摘されている。

[島崎隆夫]

『三枝博音編『三浦梅園集』(岩波文庫)』

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