Japanese / English

Daisuke Nakai

Office Address

Faculty of Economics, Kinki University

3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, 577-8502, Japan

Tel: +81-6-6721-2332 (switchboard)

Fax: +81-6-6726-3213

E-mail

dnakai#kindai.ac.jp [replace # to @]

Fields of Research Interest

History of Economic Thought, Welfare Economics

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, Osaka University, Japan, March 2007.

M.A. in Economics, Osaka University, Japan, March 2004.

B.A. in Economics, Kyushu University, Japan, March 2002.

Experience

Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, September 2012-.

Associate Professor of Economics, Kinki University, April 2010-.

Lecturer of Economics, Kinki University, April 2007-March 2010.

Awards

Encouraging Prize from The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought, May 2010.

Selected Publications (* in English)

Books

Utilitarianism and Economics: The Scope of Sidgwick’s Practical Philosophy, Kyoto: Koyo-Shobo, 217 pages, 2009.

Articles

*J.S.Mill’s Utilitarianism and Practical Proposals, Reading Paper for History of Economics Society 2009 Conference, 14 pages.

Science and Art in Sidgwick’s The Principles of Political Economy, with Special Reference to the Relationship between Egoism and Utilitarianism, The History of Economic Thought, Vol.48, No.1, pp.46-62, 2006.

Selected Presentations (* in English)

*Three Dimensions of Classical Utilitarian Economic Thought: Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Sidgwick

The International Society for Utilitarian Studies 12th International Conference, New York University, August 2012

*J. S. Mill’s Utilitarianism and Practical Proposals

36th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society, University of Colorado Denver, June 2009.

*Sidgwick’s Social Philosophy

The 11th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, July 2007.