Founder of the Uno school, who recast Capital in three levels: principles, stages and analysis of the present
Born into a merchant family in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Uno graduated in economics from Tokyo Imperial University in 1921. After two years in Berlin reading Marx's Capital and Lenin in the original German, he became associate professor at Tohoku Imperial University in 1924. Close to the Rōnō-ha in the debate on Japanese capitalism, he was arrested in the Popular Front Incident of 1938 and later acquitted. Appointed professor at the University of Tokyo in 1947, he published Theory of Value (1947), Principles of Political Economy (1950–52) and Theory of Crisis (1953). His three-level method, dividing political economy into the theory of principles, stages theory and analysis of the present situation, founded the Uno school, one of the main currents of social science in post-war Japan.
Also known as: Kozo Uno
Activities and affiliations
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1924–1941
Japan state institutionsAssociate professor, Tohoku Imperial University
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1947–1958
Japan state institutionsProfessor, Institute of Social Science, University of TokyoMain
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1958–1968
Scholarship and theory
Career Timeline
- 1924–1941Associate professor of economic policy, Tohoku Imperial University
- 1938Arrested in the Popular Front Incident, later acquitted
- 1947–1958Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
- 1950–1952Principles of Political Economy
- 1953Theory of Crisis
- 1958–1968Professor, Hosei University