The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿). In this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately after World War II, as an activist who opposed the rearmament of Japan under the US-Japan Security Alliance, as a student of Marxist economics first and then modern mathematical economics, as a graduate student at Minnesota, as a young economist at Stanford, Harvard, and then Kyoto, as a central faculty member to develop comparative institutional analysis at Stanford, and as an institutional builder who established the Stanford Kyoto Center, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry, the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies Institution in Tokyo, and the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance in Beijing. Until now the memoir has been available only in Japanese and in Chinese. The English edition will allow more young social scientists to touch the life and the work of Masahiko Aoki and be inspired to make their own versions of the "transboundary game of life."

1 Seven Intellectual Ventures.- 2 Student Movement.- 3 Three of My Seniors.- 4 "Reiji Himeoka".- 5 Nouvelle Vague.- 6 From Whence My DNA.- 7 Childhood.- 8 Middle School Years.- 9 High School Years.- 10 Sugamo Prison and Anti-Security Treaty Struggle.- 11 Dissolution of the Bund.- 12 Fleeing the Frontline.- 13 Toward Modern Economics.- 14 Operation Study Abroad.- 15 To University of Minnesota.- 16 Job Market.- 17 Serra House.- 18 Counterculture.- 19 Day of Departure from America.- 20 Wavering about Economics.- 21 Visiting Closed China.- 22 Thoughts on Corporations East and West.- 23 Return to My Former Haunts.- 24 Taking Stanford to Japan.- 25 Toward Comparative Institutional Analysis.- 26 To Kasumigaseki.- 27 Light and Shadow of Independent Administrative Institutions.- 28 Engaging with China.- 29 Teaming up with Toyota on Environmental Issues.- 30 Social Game and Virtual Research Institute.- 31 Conclusion: The Challenge of the Trans-Boundary Game.- Bibliography.- Name Index.