Dr. Yasuyuki Osumi is a Professor of Economics at University of Hyogo in Japan, earned his Ph.D. from Kobe University. Throughout his career, he served as a Visiting Scholar at esteemed institutions including the University of British Columbia in Canada, the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and the University of York in the U.K. His primary research interests lie in macroeconomics, economic growth, technological progress, and income distribution. Dr. Osumi has significantly contributed to the field, co-editing and co-authoring research books such as Studies in Medium-Run Macroeconomics: Growth, Fluctuations, Unemployment, Inequality and Policy, published by World Scientific, and Technological Progress, Income Distribution, and Unemployment: Theory and Empirics, published by Springer.