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Global Focus on Knowledge 2011 / Is There the ‘Blue Bird’? ―Think about it in Economics

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Global Focus on Knowledge 2011 / Is There the ‘Blue Bird’? ―Think about it in Economics
Instructor:

  • Prof. Akihiko Matsui 

  • Prof. Shin-ichi Fukuda 

  • Prof. Mariko Fuji-i 

  • Prof. Hiroshi Yoshikawa 

  • Prof. Yuji Genda 

  • Prof. Yasuyuki Sawada 

  • Prof. Motoshige Ito 

Term:

Summer session,
Monday, 5th period
(16:20–17:50)

Level:

First/Second year students


Global Focus on Knowledge 2011:  Is There the ‘Blue Bird’? ―Think about it in Economics

Tyltyl and Mytyl meet a witch on Christmas Eve and set off to look for the blue bird that is to bring happiness. Unable to find it, they awake from their dream only to become aware that the blue bird has existed in their own home―.

The period of rapid economic growth, when people were poor but full of dreams and hopes, came to an end; now it is said that our society is headed toward stagnation. In such society, what is the blue bird? Where is it? Can we find the blue bird? To that end, what do we have to do?

A great economist A. Marshall once said that the true role of economics was to send into the world those having both “cool heads but warm hearts.” Roaring with anger against social wrongs does not solve problems. But still, by losing warm hearts, one also loses sight of one's goal itself. If your passion operates as an accelerator and engine, then economics works as a break and steering wheel. It is expected that by using these two freely you will look for the blue bird of your own.

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