Thomas T. Sekine

Tomohiko Sekine (関根 友彦, Sekine Tomohiko, born 1933), a.k.a. Thomas T. Sekine is a Japanese economist and is considered to be one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's labor theory of value. His main work The Dialectic of Capital was published in 1986. He is a scholar of Kozo Uno.

Tomohiko Sekine, a.k.a. Thomas T. Sekine
Born	1933
Nationality	Japanese
Institution	York University[1]
Field	Political economy
School or tradition	Marxian economics
Alma mater	Hitotsubashi University[1]
Academic advisors	Shigeto Tsuru[2]
Influences	Kozo Uno, Karl Marx

Selected publications

Main Work

• Sekine, Thomas T.: The Dialectic of Capital. A Study of the Inner Logic of Capitalism, as Japanese title, Bumpai no Genri, 2 volumes (preliminary edition), Tokyo 1986; ISBN 978-4-924750-33-3 (vol. 1), ISBN 4-924750-34-4 (vol. 2). doi:10.4444/34.1.

Further Publications

• Sekine, Thomas T.: An Outline of the Dialectic of Capital, 2 volumes, London, New York 1997; international: ISBN 0-333-66677-1 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-333-66678-X (vol. 2); Nordamerika: ISBN 0-312-17559-0 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-312-17560-4 (vol. 2), ISBN 0-312-17558-2 (set). doi:10.4444/34.2.
• Sekine, Thomas T.: Uno-Riron: A Japanese Contribution to Marxian Political Economy, in: Journal of Economic Literature 13 (1975), pp. 847-877. doi:10.4444/34.100.

Bibliography

• Kubota, Ken: Die dialektische Darstellung des allgemeinen Begriffs des Kapitals im Lichte der Philosophie Hegels. Zur logischen Analyse der politischen Ökonomie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Adornos und der Forschungsergebnisse von Rubin, Backhaus, Reichelt, Uno und Sekine (PDF), in: Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung. Neue Folge 2009, pp. 199-224. doi:10.4444/100.100.de.
• Kubota, Ken: The Dialectical Presentation of the General Notion of Capital in the Light of Hegel's Philosophy: On the Logical Analysis of Political Economy with Special Consideration of Adorno and the Research Results of Rubin, Backhaus, Reichelt, Uno, and Sekine (PDF), in: Revista Dialectus 9 (2020), no. 18, pp. 39-65. doi:10.4444/100.100.
• Pack, Spencer J.: Do not dump the Unoites – Unoite school of Marxist thought in Japan. Reply to John Lie, includes John Lie's response.
• Pozo, Luis M.: Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy.
• Saraka, Sean: Review of Albritton's "Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy“.
• Westra, Richard: Marxian economic theory and an ontology of socialism: A Japanese intervention.

References

1. "関根友彦 せきね ともひこ" 講談社デジタル版 日本人名大辞典+Plus
2. "都留重人ゼミ昭和32年会"

External links

• Thomas T. Sekine at Owl of Minerva Press
• Thomas T. Sekine, List of Publications (PDF), 2005.