Summers, Laura - In: Southeast Asian journal of social science 14 (1986) 1: Wealth and poverty in contemporary Southeast Asia, pp. 16-34
As the author sees it, economic developments in Cambodia during the Sihanouk years (1953-69) must be interpreted within the larger context of government efforts to promote a distinctive political economy of status. Sihanouk boldly employed his royal status and mass popular assemblies to devise a...