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1948年生まれ。早稲田大学政治経済学部卒業後、同大学経済学部研究科博士課程修了。オックスフォード大学哲学博士。早稲田大学政治経済学部教授を経て、平成10年より国際日本文化研究センター教授。故小渕首相主宰「21世紀日本の構想」懇談会の中心メンバーであった。国土審議会委員。専門は比較経済史。歴史の大きな枠組みについて常識をくつがえす斬新な「文明の海洋史観」を提唱し、注目を集める。また、21世紀の日本文明にふさわしいビジョンとして「富国有徳」を唱え、美しい国土を持つ世界に誇りうる日本列島、庭園の島(ガーデンアイランズ)構想を提唱している。
主な著書・雑誌記事等「日本文明と近代西洋」(NHKブックス)、「富国有徳論」(中公文庫、アジア太平洋賞特別賞)、「鉄砲を捨てた日本人」(中公文庫)、「文明の海洋史観」(中公叢書、読売論壇賞)、「文明の海へ」(ダイヤモンド社)、「海洋連邦論」(PHP研究所)、「新しい日本のかたち」(藤原書店)、「世界経済は危機を乗り越えるか」(ウェッジ)、「グローバル・ヒストリーに向けて」(藤原書店)、「「美の文明」をつくる―「力の文明」を超えて」(ちくま新書)など。

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Born in Kyoto in 1948.
After graduating from Waseda University's School of Political Science and Economics, Kawakatsu went on to earn his Master's degree from the same University's Graduate School of Economics. He later received a doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford University. After teaching at Waseda University's School of Political Science and Economics, since 1998 he has taught at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. A central figure in late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's Commission on Japan's Goals in the Twenty-first Century, Kawakatsu is also a member of the National Land Development Council. A specialist in comparative socio-economic history, he attracted particular attention with Bunmei no Kaiyoshikan (A Maritime View of the History of Civilizations), an original work that overturned established historical thinking. Extolling Fukoku Yutoku (Wealth and Virtue) as a vision for Japanese civilization in the 21st century, he promotes a "garden islands" concept for the Japanese archipelago and its world-renowned natural beauty.

Selected Works
Nihon Bunmei to Kindai Seiyo (Japanese Civilization and the Modern West), Japan Broadcast Publishing Co. Ltd.
Fukoku Yutoku Ron (A Treatise on Wealth and Virtue), Chuko Bunko; Winner of the Asia Pacific Special Award (Mainichi Shinbun)
Teppo o Suteta Nihonjin (Japanese translation of Noel Perrin's Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879), Chuko Bunko
Bunmei no Kaiyoshikan (A Maritime View of the History of Civilizations), Chuko Sosho; Winner of the Yomiuri Award (Yomiuri Shinbun)
Bunmei no Umi e (A Treatise on Maritime Civilization), Diamond Inc.
Kaiyo Renpo Ron (A Treatise on Island Federations), PHP Interface
Atarashii Nihon no Katachi (Toward a New Japan), Fujiwara Shoten
Sekai Keizai wa Kiki o Norikoeru ka (On the World Economic Crisis) Wedge Corporation.
Gurobaru Hisutori ni Mukete (Towards a Global History), Fujiwara Shoten
"Bi no Bunmei" o Tsukuru: Chikara no Bunmei o Koete (Toward a Civilization of Beauty: Beyond a Civilization of Power), Chikuma Shinsho