Ethnicity and the economy : the state, Chinese business, and multinationals in Malaysia

Author(s)

• Jesudason, James V.

Bibliographic Information

Ethnicity and the economy : the state, Chinese business, and multinationals in Malaysia

James V. Jesudason

（Oxford paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 1990

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [201]-210

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study provides a detailed analysis of transformation in the Malaysian economy. It highlights the role of ethnic politics in shaping Malaysia's economic situation, and thus provides an insight into why Malaysia, despite favourable factors in its past, has not become one of the newly-industrialized countries like Taiwan or Hong Kong. It will provide a useful framework for studying other ethnically divided societies.

Table of Contents

• THE ETHNIC FACTOR IN DEVELOPMENT: The limits of rational economic models
• The psychology and politics of ethnic claims
• the ethnic framework of development
• methodology, propositions and data
• THE COLONIAL IMPACT: Introduction
• historical background
• ethnicity and economic segmentation
• the making of ethnic political structures
• THE RESTRAINED RULE OF THE STATE 1957-1969
• Introduction
• departing from the colonial framework
• constraints to state expansion
• preserving the foreigners' role
• the spread of Chinese business
• Malay business developments
• the breakdown of the Laissez-Faire framework
• conclusion
• THE ENLARGED STATE: Introduction
• gearing for state expansion
• the state as entrepreneur
• pernas and PNB
• other sectors
• the SEDCs
• the state and private Malay capitalists
• group worth and support for the state
• the over-burdened state
• conclusion
• THE STATE AND CHINESE BUSINESS
• Introdution
• the emerging economic environment
• the limits and possibilities of economic protest
• the NEP and Chinese strategies of accommodation
• the failure of a state-capitalist alliance
• conclusion
• THE ROLE OF MULTINATIONALS
• introduction
• state interests and the business climate
• capitalizing on international diversity
• labour intensive, export-oriented production
• casting the multinational net widely
• foreign investment and economic crisis.

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Details

• NCID: BA12400881
• ISBN:
  • 0195889703
• LCCN: 88031406
• Country Code: si
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Singapore
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 218 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC445.5
  • DC19 : 338.9595
  • NDC8 : 332.239
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Malaysia -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : Malaysia -- Economic policy
  • LCSH : Malaysia -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Chinese -- Malaysia
  • LCSH : International business enterprises -- Malaysia
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00075182