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Susumu Nishibe (西部 邁, Nishibe Susumu, 15 March 1939 – 21 January 2018) was a Japanese critic, conservative and economist. He was a professor of Socioeconomics at University of Tokyo. He criticized modern economics, progressivism and rationalism, and advocated theories on mass society, conservatism, and the independence of Japan from the United States.