Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director of Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of several books including Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013) and Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2022).

Makoto Itoh was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a Member of the Japan Academy. He has taught widely at many universities, including the New School for Social Research, New York University, Cambridge University and London University. His books include Value and Crisis, and The Japanese Economy Reconsidered.

Nobuharu Yokokawa is a Fellow of Musashi Institute for Social Sciences and an Emeritus Professor at Musashi University, Tokyo. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history and development economics.