Snippets

THE snippets today highlight four rather academic titles with a slant on economic history, thick in numbers and technical analysis.

Under its Routledge Revival series, Taylor & Francis’ offerings include The Malaysian Economy: Spatial Perspectives by George Cho, an analytical and academic study of the country’s economic development and success since independence in 1957 right until the 1980s. First published in 1990 and again in 2011 in UK, it went to print simultaneously in the United States.

Under its Malaysian Studies series, there is Malaysia’s Development Challenges: Graduating from the middle which examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges facing the country as it shifts from a middle-income to high-income economy. This issue is of interest to academics, policy-makers and development practitioners in the developing world, particularly in middle-income economies.

It is a compilation of works from 18 writers-cum-academicians and researchers and its form took shape in December 2008 when Hal Hill was a visiting professor at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies. He himself contributed the first chapter Malaysian Economic Development: Looking back and forward.