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*''Born: [[1680]]''
*''Died: [[1747]]''
*''Japanese'': 太宰春台 ''(Dazai Shundai)''

Dazai Shundai was an [[Edo period]] scholar, generally identified as the first to advocate a distinction between moral and economic thinking, and to suggest direct government support for commercial and productive enterprises. He was a student of [[Ogyu Sorai|Ogyû Sorai]].

His most famous work is perhaps the ''Keizairoku'', published in [[1729]], but these ideas, in which he advocates for [[han|domainal]] governments to buy up useful goods produced within the domain, at a fair price, to then resell both locally and at the markets of [[Osaka]], [[Kyoto]], and [[Edo]], do not appear until the ''Keizairoku shûi''. This latter document was written sometime in the early 1740s, but might not have been published until the modern period.

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==References==
*[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 199.

[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]