ABSTRACT
In the late 1920s an intensive exchange of scientific research results started among internationally oriented economists. The year 1930 was especially important for the conscious internationalization of the economics profession not only in Japan but also in Europe and North America. As discussed in Ikeo (1993a, 1996c), economists swiftly laid a foundation for the formation of their world community after 1930. We can list three elements that go to make up the new phenomenon.
