Moritaro Yamada

Marxist economist. Born in Aichi Prefecture on January 29, 1897. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo Imperial University in 1923 (Taisho 12), he became an assistant professor there in 1926, where he studied Marx's theory of value and reproduction, but was arrested in 1930 (Showa 5) in the "Communist Sympathizer Incident" and retired. He then went on to study Japanese capitalism, and edited the "Lectures on the Development History of Japanese Capitalism" (1932-33) with Noro Eitaro and others. His book "Analysis of Japanese Capitalism" (1934), a collection of essays written in this "Lecture," is the quintessence of the theory of the Lecture School, and gave birth to many followers who regarded it as a holy scripture. In 1936, he was arrested in the "Com Academy Incident," which made it difficult for him to continue his research on Japanese capitalism, and from 1939 onwards he engaged in research on Chinese agriculture at the Institute of East Asian Studies. After the war, he returned to his post as professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo, and wrote books on land reform and subsequent agricultural issues, as well as the heavy chemical industrialization of postwar Japanese capitalism, but he never had the same strong influence as he had before the war. After retiring from the University of Tokyo in 1982, he became a professor at Senshu University and then Ryukoku University. He passed away on December 27, 1980. Coincidentally, he was born and died in the same year as Hirano Yoshitaro, who was known as the twin pillars of the lecture group.

[Harunari Yamazaki]

"The Collected Works of Moritaro Yamada, Volume 5 and Supplementary Volume 1 (1983-84, Iwanami Shoten)"

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マルクス経済学者。明治30年1月29日愛知県生まれ。1923年（大正12）東京帝国大学経済学部卒業、26年に同学部助教授となって、マルクスの価値論、再生産論を研究したが、30年（昭和5）「共産党シンパ事件」で検挙され退職した。その後、日本資本主義の研究に進み、野呂(のろ)栄太郎などと『日本資本主義発達史講座』（1932～33）の編集にあたった。この『講座』に書いた論文を集めた彼の著書『日本資本主義分析』（1934）は、講座派理論の精髄ともいうべき著作で、これを聖典視する信奉者を数多く生み出した。36年には「コム・アカデミー事件」で検挙され、日本資本主義の研究を継続することは困難となり、39年以降は東亜研究所で中国農業の研究に従事した。戦後、東大経済学部教授に復職、農地改革やその後の農業問題、戦後日本資本主義の重化学工業化についての著作があるが、戦前におけるような強烈な影響力をもつことはなかった。57年（昭和32）に東大を定年退職して以後は、専修大学、ついで龍谷(りゅうこく)大学教授。昭和55年12月27日没。講座派の双璧(そうへき)といわれた平野義太郎(よしたろう)とは、くしくも同じ年に生まれ、同じ年に没した。

［山崎春成］

『『山田盛太郎著作集』五巻・別巻一（1983～84・岩波書店）』

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