From Antiquity to the Renaissance -- Mercantilism and natural resources -- Pre-classical enlightenment developments -- The physiocrats and the bread riots -- From Adam Smith to classical political economy -- John Stuart Mill and the idea of progress -- Managing nature in the enlightenment --...

Offers a new insight into the rapidly-developing picture of economics in Southeast Asia. The countries of the region display a great variety of development experiences. Its character is increasingly dominated by the region's ever-closer integration into the wider East Asian network of primary...