W. Elliot Brownlee is professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his most recent books are Federal Taxation in America: A Short History, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004); The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies, coedited with Hugh Davis Graham (2003); and Funding the Modern American State: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance, 1941–1995 (Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996). His articles on the history of taxation and public finance have appeared in various scholarly volumes and in journals and periodicals, including American Nineteenth Century History, the Asia-Pacific Journal, Explorations in Economic History, Keio Economic Studies, The National Tax Journal, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Rikkyo Economic Review, Sekai (The World), Social Philosophy and Policy, Tax Notes, The Wilson Quarterly, and The Wisconsin Magazine of History.

Eisaku Ide is professor in the faculty of economics at Keio University, Japan. He has served on many governmental commissions and committees for agencies of the Japanese government, including the Cabinet Office; the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; and the National Governor's Association. His major field of scholarly emphasis is fiscal history, and he has published several books and numerous articles on the history of Japanese budgetary and monetary policy during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. He recently published two articles in English: “The End of the Strong State?: On the Evolution of Japanese Tax Policy,” with Sven Steinmo (in The New Fiscal Sociology: Comparative and Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press 2009) and “The Origins of Macro-Budgeting and the Foundations of Japanese Public Finance: Drastic Fiscal Reform in Occupation Era” (in Keio Economic Studies 2011, vol. 47). He has received the Susumu Sato Award from the Japanese Association of Local Public Finance and the Sozei Siryokan Award from the Institute of Tax Research and Literature.

Yasunori Fukagai is professor in the faculty of economics at Yokohama National University. His field of scholarly emphasis is the history of economic thought, and his research has focused on British utilitarian thinkers. He has published numerous scholarly articles and two edited books, Inspecting the Market Society: From Smith to Keynes (in Japanese) and British Empire, Social Integration and the History of Economic Thought (forthcoming, with Martin Daunton and Junichi Himeno). He has organized many conferences and lectured widely in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Portugal, as well as Japan. He has received numerous major research grants, including a current one from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to support “The Organic View of the Society and the Designing of Economic Governance: Comparative Research on Economic Thought from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Inter-War Period.” He is director of the developmental plan for the Carl S. Shoup Collection, which is held at the University Library of Yokohama National University.