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Kiyoaki Hirata (1922–1995) was a historian of economic thought who played a prominent role in Japanese society in the latter half of the 20th century and was known as a “renovator” of Marxism. Above all, however, he was a theoretician of civil society. Born in Tokyo, he studied under Zen’ya Takashima (1904–1990) at the Tokyo College of Commerce, the predecessor of Hitotsubashi University. Following graduation, after having received some teaching experience in various universities, he became a professor of economics at Nagoya University and then Kyoto University. He died suddenly in the middle of his tenure as president of Kagoshima Keizai University, the predecessor of the International University of Kagoshima. For his curriculum vitae and profile, see Souzou-no-kai (1996).
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Yamada, T. (2018). Kiyoaki Hirata and His Thoughts on Civil Society. In: Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society. Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science, vol 14. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0517-7_3
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