Introduction

Abstract

This chapter tracks how I originally came to economics, Marxism and Uno, together with the circumstances in which I began studying Marxian economics under Uno’s guidance in my undergraduate years, and took a deep interest in it. I will then explain the reasons for my subsequently pursuing graduate training in mainstream, bourgeois economics in the West. It foregrounds questions of my interest in Hegel’s dialectic on the one hand and in the general equilibrium approach to economics in the Walrasian tradition on the other, two things that do not at first sight seem to mix very well. Therefore, I will explain the way in which they are related to each other in my Unoist view of economics. I wish to state here that I could come to the present (and hopefully more adequate) understanding of Uno’s teachings only very recently, quite a bit after my retirement from active service as an economics instructor.