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TOKUMARU NATSUKA

Department / Course College of Economics Department of Economics

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Economics

Academic background
1.	2005/03～2005/08	Graduate School of Economics │ Vienna University
2.	2004/04～2009/09	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Kyoto Univesity │ Completed Ph.D. in Economics
3.	2002/04～2004/03	Master Course │ Graduate School of Economics │ Kyoto University │ Completed
4.	1998/04～2002/03	Faculty of Economics │ Kyoto University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2023/04/01 ～	Professor │ Department of Economics │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2021/09 ～ 2022/09	│ Peter Löscher Chair of Business Ethics/Institute for Ethics in AI │ Technical University of Munich
3.	2020/10 ～ 2021/03	Part time lecturer │ Graduate School of Economics, │ Kyoto University
4.	2017/04 ～ 2022/03	Associate Professor │ Department of Economics │ Ritsumeikan University
5.	2012/10 ～ 2017/03	Senior Lecturer │ Graduate School of Economics, │ Kyoto University
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Research activities
1.	2021 ～	International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics
2.	2023/04 ～	∟ A member of the Executive Committee
3.	2017 ～	Japanese Society for Economic Education
4.	2017/09 ～	∟ Member of the executive committee
5.	2023/10/01 ～ 2024/09/29	∟ President
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Subject of research
1.	Political Economy, Experimental Economics, Economic Philosophy, Institutional Economics

Research summary
Based on the following interests, I am conducting research on economic philosophy, empirical study using experimental economics, and institutional studies: 1. how should the potential diversity of individual behavior, its interaction, and the social consequences arising from it be treated and hypothesis tested in economics as an empirical science (epistemology and philosophy of science); 2. how do institutions--formal and informal rules of a society--change individual behavior, including not only self-interest but also ethics and social preferences (experimental research); 3. What are desirable institutions that maintain appropriate incentives and social order (institutional studies). In recent years, my research has been particularly interested in issues of distributive justice.

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Present specialized field
Economic theory, Economic doctrine/Economic thought (Keyword：Social Preference, Distributive Justice, Institution, Austrian School of Economics)

Books
1.	2016	Social Preference, Institution and Distribution: An Experimental and Philosophical Approach

Papers
1.	2024/04	Reality-oriented critical learning using the CORE in introductory economics courses: cognitive engagement and economic literacy │ Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review │ 21 (1),pp.97-113
2.	2021/12	Changed Industrial Relationship by Offshoring Threat and Labor Share: An Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis │ Journal of Globalization and Development │ 12 (2),pp.117-143
3.	2021/12	Methodological Individualism Reconsidered: Human Behavior and Social Institutions Toward Empirical Tests │ Studies in Critical Rationalism │ 12 (2),pp.2-10
4.	2020/02	Coevolution of Institutions and Residents toward Sustainable Glocal Development: A Case Study on the Kuni Umi Solar Power Project on Awaji Island │ Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review │ 17 (1),pp.197-217
5.	2019/11	Why do workers work? Inequality and collective benefits in organisational production experiments │ Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review │ 16 (2),pp.375-396
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/09	Who represents whose interests? : the changing roles of labor unions and governments on inequality in the era of globalization
2.	2023/05/25	Why Fairness Matters? Income Distributions and Micro behaviors
3.	2021/10	Facts and Discussion Based Learning using the CORE Textbook, and  Development of Economic Literacy in Japan
4.	2019/12	English economic education for fostering critical thinking skills: Practices and issues of English lectures using Core textbook
5.	2019/07	Why Do Workers Work?: Inequality and Collective Benefit in Production Experiments
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Other research achievements
1.	2023/01 ～ 2023/06	Scientific Committee of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
2.	2020	Peer Review: Applied Economics
3.	2019	Peer Review: Institutional and Evolutionary Economics Review

Works
1.	2024/03/02	Toward "Interesting" Classroom Practice: Challenges and Issues for the Japanese Society for Economic Education
2.	2022/04/07	Changing Human Resource Management in Japan by AI Technology and Related Ethical Issues

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2023/04/01 ～	A comparative analysis of income distribution shapes and distributive justice preferences: for appropriate redistributive policies. │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
2.	2019/04/01 ～ 2022/03/31	Linking Economic Education and English Language Teaching with the CORE Project, an Online Teaching Resource for Economics in English │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
3.	2014/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	Comparative Analysis of J. R. Commons' Institutional Economics with his newly discovered manuscript written in 1927 │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2014/04 ～ 2016/03	Elucidating Incentives to Promote Voluntary Environmental Responsiveness and Socially Responsible Investment: An Experimental Economics Approach │ Research by External Competitive Fund
2.	2011/08 ～ 2011/09	The Actual Situation and Results of Entrepreneurship Education in Finland: Market and Education in the Liberalization Process │ Research by External Competitive Fund

Subject
1.	Elementary Seminar　Ⅱ
2.	Introductory International Political Economy
3.	Introductory Political Economy
4.	Special Seminar　Ⅱ

Activity in society
1.	2021/07/22 ～ 2021/07/29	Public Lecture for Citizen's University, Let's Study Economics Open to the World by CORE-Econ!

Department laboratory expense researcher number
40646783

researchmap Researcher code
7000009310

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0002-1402-4500
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