Takashi Negishi

Takashi Negishi (Japanese根 岸 隆, Takashi Negishi, born April 2, 1933, Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese economist.

Career, teaching and research

Negishi studied economics at the University of Tokyo. After his graduation, he remained at the university at which he was appointed professor later. Later he taught at the Aoyama Gakuin University.

Negishi sat down already during his studies with the emerging again in the 1940s and 1950s, general equilibrium theory apart and in turn published several works in which he sought to expand the theory of mathematical methods and explore. Influenced by the work of John Richard Hicks ' was to map as many elements of the economic process such as growth, money, uncertainty and stability in the model. He discovered some limits of existing theory. After stable equilibria were postulated to be central in particular by Kenneth Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz and Lionel McKenzie and had Herbert Scarf and David Gale made ​​substantive counter-examples for the approaches of the three mentioned, Negishi developed together with Frank Hahn another approach for stable equilibria.

After Negishi had dealt mainly in the 1970s with the application of general equilibrium theory to the mikroökonimschen basic building blocks of Keynesian macroeconomics, he turned to the middle of the following decade, the history of economic theory and set theory comparisons between various approaches dar.

Negishi 1994 served as President of the Econometric Society.