Transboundary Game of Life

1 Seven Intellectual Ventures.- 2 Student Movement.- 3 Three of My Seniors.- 4 "Reiji Himeoka".- 5 Nouvelle Vague.- 6 From Whence My DNA.- 7 Childhood.- 8 Middle School Years.- 9 High School Years.- 10 Sugamo Prison and Anti-Security Treaty Struggle.- 11 Dissolution of the Bund.- 12 Fleeing the Frontline.- 13 Toward Modern Economics.- 14 Operation Study Abroad.- 15 To University of Minnesota.- 16 Job Market.- 17 Serra House.- 18 Counterculture.- 19 Day of Departure from America.- 20 Wavering about Economics.- 21 Visiting Closed China.- 22 Thoughts on Corporations East and West.- 23 Return to My Former Haunts.- 24 Taking Stanford to Japan.- 25 Toward Comparative Institutional Analysis.- 26 To Kasumigaseki.- 27 Light and Shadow of Independent Administrative Institutions.- 28 Engaging with China.- 29 Teaming up with Toyota on Environmental Issues.- 30 Social Game and Virtual Research Institute.- 31 Conclusion: The Challenge of the Trans-Boundary Game.- Bibliography.- Name Index.

Masahiko Aoki was the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies in the Department of Economics, and a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Aoki was a theoretical and applied economist with a strong interest in institutional and comparative issues. He specialized in the theory of institutions, corporate architecture and governance, and the Japanese and Chinese economies.

His most recent book, Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognition, Governance, and Institutions, based on his 2008 Clarendon Lectures, was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. It identifies a variety of corporate architecture as diverse associational cognitive systems, and discusses their implications to corporate governance, as well their modes of interactions with society, polity, and financial markets within a unified game-theoretic perspective. His previous book, Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis, was published in 2001 by MIT Press. This work developed a conceptual and analytical framework for integrating comparative studies of institutions in economics and other social science disciplines using game-theoretic language. Aoki's research has been also published in the leading journals in economics, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Literature, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations.

Aoki was the president of the International Economic Association from 2008 to 2011, and is also a former president of the Japanese Economic Association. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the founding editor of the Journal of Japanese and International Economies. He was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in 1990, and the sixth International Schumpeter Prize in 1998. Between 2001