Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword to the Volume -- Acknowledgments -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Autonomy of Market Activity and the Emergence of Keizai Thought -- Money and the State: Medieval Precursors of the Early Modern Economy -- Economic Thought Concerning Freedom and Control -- Guiding Horses with Rotten Reins: Economic Thought in the Eighteenth-Century Kingdom of Ryukyu -- The Shift to Domestic Sugar and the Ideology of 'The National Interest' -- A Domain Doctor and Shogunal Policies -- The Economic Thought of Shōji Kōki and the Tenpō Reforms in Saga Domain -- Confucian Banking: The Community Granary (Shasō) in Rhetoric and Practice -- From Tokugawa to Meiji: The Economic Thought of a Local Entrepreneur in the Early Meiji Era -- Policy Space, Polarities, and Regimes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.