A Vision of a New Liberalism?In 1992, a year before his death, Yasusuke Murakami published in Japanese An Anti Classical Political Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century (English translation, Stanford, 1996). A work that distilled decades of research and thought by a distinguished economic theorist turned social scientist and philosopher, it sold more than 25,000 copies in Japan despite its highly scholarly nature. The book enjoyed such immediate recognition because it