Personal Information
Name: HARAYA Naoki
Date of Birth: 11 September 1978.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate (2003- 2011: ABD)
Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tokyo, Japan
MPhil. (June 2005)
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
M.A. (May 2003)
Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tokyo, Japan
B.A. (May 2001)
Faculty of Economics
Keio University, Japan
Publications
"Should Economic Phenomena be Explained Subjectively?: Menger, Hakey, Lachmann," in Shin Kubo and Nobuhiko Nakazawa (eds.) Introduction to History of Economics, Showado, April 2023. (in Japanese)
"Methodology of Science and Economics: Philosophical Thinking of Economics," The Keizai Seminar, 704, September 2018. (in Japanese)
"Why Ontology is the Problem in Economic Methodology: Recent Development in Methodology," in Chikakazu Tadakoshi and Kensuke Sasaki (eds.) Multiple Dimensions of Economic Methodology: From the Historical Point of View, Sotensha Shyuppan, June 2018. (in Japanese)
"OBITUARY: Mark Blaug (1927-2011)," The History of Economic Thought, 56(2), January 2015. (in English)
"Hayek's Methodology of Social Science," in Takao Katsuragi (ed.) Reading Hayek, Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2014. (in Japanese)
"Israel M. Kirzner," Weekly Economist, 91(13), March 2013. (in Japanese)
"Rationality, Subjectivism, Hermeneutics: the Development of Austrian Economics," Tokyo College of Transport Studies, 18, March 2013. (in Japanese)
"Murray N. Rothbard," Weekly Economist, 91(2), January 2013. (in Japanese)
"Carl Menger," Weekly Economist, 90(27), June 2012. (in Japanese)
"Market Process and Entrepreneurship: Economics of Israel M. Kirzner," Tokyo College of Transport Studies, 17, December 2011. (in Japanese)
"Instrumentalism and the Realism of Assumptions," Tokyo College of Transport Studies, 16, December 2010. (in Japanese)
"Reductionism, Microfoundations, Atomism: Various Dimensions of Individualism," Sobun, 522, August 2009. (in Japanese)
"Neoliberalism," in Keishi Saeki and Keita Shibayama (eds.) Keywords of the Modern Society: Reading the World after the Cold War, Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2009. (in Japanese)
"Consumer Sovereignty," in Masanobu Sato (ed.) How does ethics matter to business? Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2009. (in Japanese)
"Nozick, Rawls, Sen: Libertarianism and Liberalism," in Atsushi Komine (ed.) How Did Economists Deal with Welfare? Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2007. (in Japanese)
"Rethinking "the invisible Hand" Explanation," Takasaki University of Commerce, 21, December 2006. (in Japanese)
"Entrepreneur," in Susumu Morimura (ed.) The Libertarian Reader: A Compact Dictionary, Tokyo: Keisoshobo, 2005. (in Japanese)
"Methodological Individualism," in Susumu Morimura (ed.) The Libertarian Reader: A Compact Dictionary, Tokyo: Keisoshobo, 2005. (in Japanese)
"Murray N. Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty," in Susumu Morimura (ed.) The Libertarian Reader: A Compact Dictionary, Tokyo: Keisoshobo, 2005. (in Japanese)
"Radical Subjectivism and Institutions: Economic Thought of Ludwig M. Lachmann," Bulletin of the Center for Historical Social Science Literature, 24, March 2004. (in Japanese)
"Economic thought of Modern Austrians: Kirzner, Lachmann, Rothbard; Towards a heterodox economics paradigm," Master thesis at the University of Tokyo, 2003. (in Japanese)
Presentations
"The Role of Ontological Presuppositions in Economics: Uskali Maki's Methodology of Economics," at the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought the 81th Annual Meeting, Tokushima Bunri University, 3 June, 2017.
"Hayek's Methodology of Social Science," at the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought the 78th Annual Meeting, Rikkyo University, 24 May, 2014.
"Hayek's Methodology of Social Science," at the Kanto Branch Seminar of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought, Toyo University, 17 November, 2012.
"Models and Realism: Recent Development of Economic Methodology," at the 14th Forum for Economic Methodology, Matsuyama University, 27 December, 2011.
"Altruism and Self-interest," at the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought the 75th Annual Meeting, Kyoto University, 06 November, 2011.
"Various Dimensions of Methodological Individualism," at the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought the 74th Annual Meeting, Toyama University, 22 May, 2010.
"Various Ingredients of the Invisible Hand Explanation," at "The Foundation of methodology of Modern economics," Young Scholars' Seminar (Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought), Tokyo University for Foreign Studies, 19 November, 2008.
"How Can Unrealistic Assumptions Work?: Values in Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics," at Young Scholars' Seminar (Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought), Hitotsubashi University, 17 March, 2008.
"Explanatory Characteristics of the Invisible Hand," at Prof. Klausinger Seminar, Center for Historical Social Science Literature, Hitotsubashi University, 12 Feburary, 2008.
"On Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics," at the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought the 71th Annual Meeting, Kyusyu Sangyo University, 26 May, 2007.
"Economic Thought of Ludwig M. Lachmann: With Special Reference to the Previous Generation of the Austrian School of Economics," at the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought the 68th Annual Meeting, Hokusei Gakuen University, 30 May, 2004.
"Market Process Theory of Modern Austrians," at the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics Seventh Annual Conference, Senshu University, 29-30 March, 2003.
Career (Full time)
Associate Professor (April 2017- present)
Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Faculty of International Communication
Assistant Professor (April 2013- March 2017)
Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Faculty of International Communication
Associate Professor (April 2012- March 2013)
Tokyo College of Transport Studies
Assistant Professor (April 2010- March 2012)
Tokyo College of Transport Studies
Career (Part time)
Part-time lecturer (April 2024- present)
Japan Women's University
Part-time lecturer (April 2023- present)
The University of Tokyo
Part-time lecturer (April 2022- present)
The Open University of Japan
Part-time lecturer (April 2019- March 2021)
Keio University
Part-time lecturer (April 2018- March 2019)
Waseda University
Part-time lecturer (April 2018 - March 2020)
Japan Women's University
Part-time lecturer (April 2017- present)
Kokugakuin University
Part-time lecturer (April 2013- March 2017)
Tokyo College of Transport Studies
Part-time lecturer (April 2013- March 2014)
Kanto Gakuin University
Part-time lecturer (November 2012- March 2013)
Nihon University
Part-time lecturer (April 2012- March 2016)
Keio University
Part-time lecturer (December 2011- March 2019)
Toyo University
Part-time lecturer (April 2010- March 2011)
Takushoku University
Leader Assistant (April 2009- March 2010)
Meiji University
Part-time lecturer (April 2009- present)
Seijo University
Part-time lecturer (April 2007- March 2008)
Teikyo University
Part-time lecturer (April 2006- March 2013)
Kanagawa Institute of Technology
Part-time lecturer (December 2005- March 2010)
Takasaki University of Commerce
Scholarship
Japan Scholarship Foundation (April 2002- March 2006)