Transboundary Game of Life Memoir of Masahiko Aoki
The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 (青木昌彦『私の履歴書 人生越境ゲーム』日本経済新聞出版社). In this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately after World War II, as an activist
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Transboundary Game of Life Memoir of Masahiko Aoki
Transboundary Game of Life
Masahiko Aoki
Transboundary Game of Life Memoir of Masahiko Aoki
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Masahiko Aoki Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA Translated by Beth Cary, Oakland, CA, USA
ISBN 978-981-13-2756-8 ISBN 978-981-13-2757-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2757-5
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Foreword
Masahiko Aoki (1938–2015): His Pilgrimage and Legacies1 The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, composed between 1790 and 1793. It’s more than a game. It’s an institution. Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays, 1857.
Masahiko Aoki passed away on July 15, 2015, at the age of 77, leaving all who knew him with a grave feeling of loss. Masa was an excellent scholar and an unforgettable person with the rare combination of a cool head and a warm heart. His brilliant and flamboyant life is marked by numerous academic distinctions and recognitions including the Nikkei Prize for Economic Book of the Year (1971) for The Economic Theory of Organization and Planning,2 the election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1982), the Japan Academy Prize (1990) for The Cooperative Game Theory of the Firm3 and Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy,4 the Presidency of the Japanese Economic Association (1995–1996) and of the International Economic Association (2008– 2011). However, his life was full of many upheavals and phoenix-like rebirths, as well as of mu
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