highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets contributed to this … reduced opportunities for rent-seeking and favoured the rise of efficient markets. This allowed burghers, peasants and …

context, economic growth and structural change, wellbeing of people, markets and governments, economic openness, and … institutions and policies - to serve as a teaser. It concludes with some brief reflections on Asia’s future prospects over the next …