Southeast Asia's Development

Dr. Bryan Cheang is Director of the Hayek Program and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, where he teaches courses on the ethics of capitalism, history of economic thought, and public policy. He is also Assistant Director and Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King's College, London, where he obtained his PhD in Political Economy. He has published various interdisciplinary books and articles exploring the relationships between markets, culture, institutions, and development, with a focus on Asia. He is particularly interested in the challenge of industrial planning under conditions of radical uncertainty and social complexity. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore and brings with him policymaking experience from the Singapore civil service.

• 1: Bryan Cheang: Introduction 2: Calixto V. Chikiamco and Melissa Luz Lopez: Oligarchic Rent-Seeking Capitalism in the Philippines 3: Carmelo Ferlito, Benedict Weerasena, and Imran Shamsunahar: Fragmented Personalistic Capitalism in Malaysia 4: Arianto Patunru and Muhamad Ikhsan: Nationalist Political Economy in Indonesia 5: Bryan Cheang: The Political Economy of Technocratic Rationalism in Singapore 6: Bradley Jensen Murg: Patrons and Clients at Home and Abroad: The political economy of Cambodian development* 7: Thantun Soe: Traditionalism and Authoritarianism in Myanmar* 8: Thantun Soe: The Political Economy of Monocentric Development in Thailand* 9: Guanie Lim and Nguyen Nhat Anh: Unfolding the Paper Tiger: Vietnams doi moi and the quest for economic substance 10: Bryan Cheang: Southeast Asia and the Freedom to Discover Bryan Cheang: Appendix 1 Bryan Cheang: Appendix 2

This magisterial volume is a brilliant antidote to the casual triumphalism of most analysis of Southeast Asia. The authors document the violations of political and economic rights in the region with authoritarian governments catering to elites. It suggests the lack of freedom has not only hindered material progress but denied individuals the ability to define for themselves what is really progress.