Mark Metzler (AB, Stanford; PhD, UC Berkeley) teaches Japanese history and global economic history at the University of Washington and, as a visiting professor, at Waseda University. He is the author of Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (UC Press, 2006), Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle (Cornell University Press, 2013), and, with Simon Bytheway, Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World (Cornell, 2016). His current work includes the chapters “Japan: The Arc of Industrialization” for the New Cambridge History of Japan and “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Birth of the Business Cycle” for Ingram and Vaughn, The Emergence of Capitalism, both forthcoming in 2023.