Makoto Itoh

Makoto Itoh (伊藤 誠, Itō Makoto; April 20, 1936 – February 7, 2023) was a Japanese economist who was considered internationally to be one of the most important scholars of Karl Marx's theory of value. He taught at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, and was a professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

Makoto Itoh
Born	(1936-04-20)April 20, 1936 Tokyo, Japan
Died	February 7, 2023(2023-02-07) (aged 86)
Academic background
Influences	Kozo Uno, Karl Marx
Academic work
Discipline	Marxian economics
School or tradition	Marxian economics

Itoh belonged to the school of economic thought founded by Kozo Uno and was one of the few Japanese Marxian economists who published widely in English-language journals such as Science & Society, Monthly Review, Capital & Class, New Left Review and Ampo. He published 24 books, of which 6 are in English, and 5 are translated and published in Chinese.

Itoh died from a heart attack on February 7, 2023, at the age of 86.^[1]

Books in English

• Value and Crisis (1980).
• The Basic Theory of Capitalism (1987)
• The world economic crisis and Japanese capitalism (1990)
• Political Economy for Socialism (1995)
• with Costas Lapavitsas, Political economy of money and finance (1999)
• The Japanese Economy Reconsidered (2000)

Articles in English

• Itoh, Makoto: "Money and credit in socialist economies: A reconsideration," Capital & Class, issue no. 60 (Autumn 1996). (retrieved from bnet 12-04-2010).
• Itoh, Makoto: "Skilled Labour in Value Theory" Capital & Class, issue no. 11 (Spring 1987) no. 1 pp. 39–58