Name: Taku ERIGUCHI

Professor: History of Economic Thought
Faculty of Economics, Seinan Gakuin University
Office: 2-92-6, Nishijin , Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-8511, Japan
Tel (+81)92-823-4435, Fax(+81)92-823-2506
Email: eriguchiATseinan-gu.ac.jp

EDUCATION
1987-1991  Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University
1991-1996  Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University
2002-2003  Honorary University Fellow of Exeter University, Department of History

DEGREE
1991       B.A.in Economics
1993       M.A.in Economics
1999       Ph.D.in Economics

EMPLOYMENT
1996       Research Assistant, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University (Apr.-Sept.)
1996-2000  Lecturer on Social Policy, Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Letters, Aichi Prefectural University

2000-       Associate Professor on Social policy, Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Letters, Aichi Prefectural University

2008-2009  Lecturer on History of Economic Theory, Nagoya University

2008-2011  Associate Professor on Social Policy, Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Education and Welfare Science, Aichi Prefectural University

2011- 2012  Associate Professor on History of Economic Thought, Faculty of Economics, Seinan Gakuin University

2012 -      Professor on History of Economic Thought, Faculty of Economics, Seinan Gakuin University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of Economic and Social Policy Thought in Britain

Economic Thought of the Webbs, L.T.Hobhouse, W.H.Beveridge, the Bosanquets and J.A.Hobson

Comparative Study of the economic thought on Welfare States: Britain, Japan and Sweden

MEMBERSHIP

The Society for the History of Economic Thought (Japan)

Society for the Study of Social Policy (Japan)

Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics

History of Economics Thought Society of Australia

GRANTS

1999-2001 　　Study in the History of Socio-Economic Thought on the Making of the Welfare State in the first half of 20th Century Britain: especially from the Internal-External point of view, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research.

2002-2005  Reconsidering the British Economic and Social Policy Thoughts in the first half of the 20th century, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research.

2007-2010  Economic Thoughts of the Public Administration in the LSE in the first half of the 20th Century, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research.

2011-2015  Social Policy Thoughts of LSE: Social Market and Public Administration in the 20th Century, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research.

AWARDS

2009  Young Scholars Award of Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (article section)