A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the crime rate.

Of particular note is the maverick scholar, philosopher/poet, Chinweizu whose influence straddles the globe, particularly the black world.

A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.

The seeds of the maverick scholar were planted the year before he left Cuba, a searing time when the revolution was swinging decisively toward Soviet-style communism.

A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to almost everything.

Shinzo Koizumi, late chancellor of Keio University and an admirer of Minakata, paid his tribute: "We should write it in the academic history in Japan that a maverick scholar acquired such extensive knowledge and accomplished such great achievements."