Introduction
I Liberalism
1. A Theory of Real Freedom: Toward a Growth-Oriented Liberalism
2. On the Concept of Positive and Negative Liberty
3. On Spontanietism
II Philosophy of Economics, Part One: Methodology
4. The Purpose and Significance of the Methodology of the Social Sciences in an Age of Scientism
5. A Theory of Methodology in the Social Sciences: A Functional Analysis
6. Social Sciences and the Idea of a “Subject”: A Fundamental Issue in Max Weber Studies in Japan
7. On the “Problem Subject”
III Philosophy of Economics, Part Two: Economic Ethics
8. Ideological Categories in Economic Ethics
9. A Typological Theory of Ideologies in the Light of Recent Issues in Economic Ethics
10. Modernity, Postmodernity and Lost-Modernity on the Ethical Driving Forces of Capitalism
Biography
Tsutomu Hashimoto is a Professor at Hokkaido University and the President of the Synodos Institute of International Studies in Japan.






