Susumu Nishibe
Susumu Nishibe | |
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西部 邁 | |
| Born | March 15, 1939 |
| Died | January 21, 2018 (aged 78) Ōta, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Sapporo Minami High School |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (Bachelor, Master) |
| Influences | Edmund Burke, Joseph Schumpeter, Yukichi Fukuzawa, José Ortega y Gasset, Tsuneari Fukuda |
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| Discipline | Socioeconomics, Political philosophy, Mass society Studies |
| School or tradition | Neoconservative |
| Influenced | Shinzo Abe, Shoji Nishida, Keishi Saeki, Satoshi Fujii, Takeshi Nakano, Teruhisa Se, Kenji Sato, Keita Shibayama |
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Susumu Nishibe (西部 邁; 15 March 1939 – 21 January 2018) was a Japanese critic, conservative and economist. He was a professor of Socioeconomics at University of Tokyo. He criticized modern economics, progressivism, and rationalism, and advocated theories on mass society, conservatism, and the independence of Japan from the United States.