Katsuhito Iwai

Katsuhito Iwai
岩井 克人
Katsuhito Iwai
Born	(1947-02-13) February 13, 1947 (age 77) Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Spouse	Minae Mizumura
Academic career
Institution	International Christian University Musashino University University of Siena University of Pennsylvania Princeton University University of Tokyo Cowles Foundation Yale University University of California, Berkeley
Field	Disequilibrium macroeconomics
Alma mater	MIT (Ph.D. 1972) University of Tokyo (B.A. 1969)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Solow
Doctoral students	Willem Buiter
Influences	Knut Wicksell Paul Samuelson Hirofumi Uzawa

Katsuhito Iwai (岩井 克人, Iwai Katsuhito, born February 13, 1947) is a Japanese economist and critic. He has studied the theory of money, macro dynamics, evolutionary economics, philosophy of corporations, fiduciary law, and the history of sociology. His work includes the book, Disequilibrium Dynamics (Yale University Press, 1981), and many articles published in academic journals. He has also written books and articles in newspapers and magazines for the general public on a wide variety of subjects ranging from global capitalism, post-modernity, civil society, money and language to literature and movies. His keen observations and analysis of the works of Shakespeare, Marx, J. S. G. Boggs, and Ihara Saikaku have established him as one of the foremost essayists in Japan.^[1]