Tsutomu Hashimoto is a Professor at Hokkaido University and the President of the Synodos Institute of International Studies in Japan.

Introduction, I. Liberalism, 1. A Theory of Real Freedom: Toward a Growth-Oriented Liberalism, 2. On the Concept of Positive and Negative Liberty, 3. On Spontanietism, II. Philosophy of Economics, Part One: Methodology, 4. The Purpose and Significance of the Methodology of the Social Sciences in an Age of Scientism, 5. A Theory of Methodology in the Social Sciences: A Functional Analysis, 6. Social Sciences and the Idea of a "Subject": A Fundamental Issue in Max Weber Studies in Japan, 7. On the "Problem Subject", III. Philosophy of Economics, Part Two: Economic Ethics, 8. Ideological Categories in Economic Ethics, 9. A Typological Theory of Ideologies in the Light of Recent Issues in Economic Ethics, 10. Modernity, Postmodernity and Lost-Modernity on the Ethical Driving Forces of Capitalism

Drawing on recent work in the contemporary philosophy of economics, this book presents new ideas on liberalism, including the concept of 'growth-oriented liberalism'.