The original book, income and wealth, published by Iwanami Shoten Japanese in 1991. Widely welcomed as a new classical distribution theory, it won the prestigious award Shimbun Nikkei Economic Book the same year. Tsuneo Ishikawa started working on an English translation of his book soon after publication, but he became ill and at the time of his death in 1998, leaving half of it is incomplete. He died soon make friends, colleagues, and students together to Tsuneo Ishikawa Fund to commemorate the life and his work, and the end of 2000, 500 people have contributed to the Fund. One of. | OXFORD INCOME AND WEALTH Tsuneo Ishikawa Income and Wealth Acknowledgements The original book Income and Wealth was published in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten in 1991. Widely acclaimed as a new classic on distribution theory it won the prestigious Nikkei Shimbun Economics Book Award the same year. Tsuneo Ishikawa started working on the English translation of his own book soon after its publication but he became seriously ill and by the time he died in 1998 left half of it unfinished. His untimely death brought his friends colleagues and students together to establish the Ishikawa Tsuneo Fund to commemorate his life and work and by the end of 2000 as many as five hundred people had contributed to the Fund. One of the Fund s missions was to publish the English translation of Income and Wealth. That so many of his former students Takahisa Dejima Kyota Eguchi Yuji Genda Mikinari Higano Hidehiko Ishihara Mamiko Ishihara Susumu Imai Shinsuke Kambe Tomoko Kishi Hideaki Murase Nobuko Nagase Naoko Nishimura Hiroshi Teruyama Atsushi Tsuneki Kaoru Ueda Shigeru Wakita and Akiko Yoshida volunteered to participate in the translation project is a testament to Ishikawa s stature as a teacher and a scholar. Without their devotion the book would not have come to life. Yuji Genda coordinated the project and he was assisted by Shinsuke Kambe Naoko Nishimura and Hiroshi Teruyama. Asami Tokuda complied references Takehisa Shinozaki and Yoko Takahashi proofread and the Daido Life Foundation provided financial assistance. Rebecca Bryant Toyoshi Onji and Andrew Schuller of Oxford University Press provided important advice and encouragement during the book s long gestation period. The Board of Ishikawa Tsueo Fund Katsuhito dwai Co-chair Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara Co-chair Konosuke Odaka Yukihiko Kiyokawa Toshiaki Tachibanaki Yuji .
