Economic Theory and the Complexity of Cap Yoshinorl Shiozawa The Recognition of Comple対 ty 島 cconomy is a complex systcm. Although thc ter dcflnitions,、 ve shall assllme hcrc thatthcre is some lcvel of a involved.Howcver,much less consensus cxists as to bc analyzcd. Until thc emergence ofthe so¨ callcd sciences of complcxity,thc preva method was to understand complex matters as a rcsult seck to undcrstand the complcxity of a givcn phenomenon or ind a simple principlc unitting and reshaping several system. But can complex systems be adcquatcly undcrstOod rcconstructivc mcthodologics? This question has bccn scalpcls of scicnce were flrst applied to complcx phc the proper methodology for thc social scicnces stress natural scicnccs.Gι sθ θ乃た力おソ′ ssι κ∫θ力 a/r(thC SCience of history)cmp idiographic character of their science,whilc Kタ ルタ〃お sι “ sθ tta/r(thC hllmanities pointcd out the impossibility of reducing cultural Hcllllencutics suggestcd thc impossibility offbmal analy vorked in thcsc traditions gcncrally claimcd that itミ ゝ s impossible to apply a reductionist to thcsc disciplines. It is not nc、 v to say that tllc cconomy is complex.Ho、 vevcr,an effectivc means approaching and undcrstanding this complcxity has not focus on the signiflcancc of complc対 ty in economic studics,I posit thr complcxity: 1.Complcxity ofsystcms and processes as obiectS Ofa 2.Complcxity ofthe economy confronted by the act市 c agent. 3.Complc対 け ofthC Cpistcmological process. Much of my owll cconOmiC research has focused on t has been to understand the bchaviOr of cconomic agent in this essay,I、 vish to discuss the tllird aspect,namely thc rna intcrvcncs in our epistemological cfforts.