The Primacy of Political Economy in Asia
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
July 2017 EDITORIAL
It’s a complicated subject, this thing we call Economics. I don’t always know what it means.I remember once talking to Robert Kuok about it. His reply was (and I paraphrase from my vague memory of that conversation): “Economics is simply about living, isn’t it? As you live, you learn to live – that is economic knowledge”.That is the gist of what I understood from what he said. I offer my apologies if I misunderstood his point. But what I understood...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
