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Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940

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Economic Growth in Indonesia employs a novel approach to Indonesian history, using modern concepts and theories of economics and the mass of new long-term statistics out by Piet Creutzberg and his associates in Amsterdam. The volume thus offers a reinterpretation to previous Dutch scholarship and presents original contributions to the quantitative economic history of Indonesia. The focus is on the period 1820-1940, years in which economic relations between the Netherlands and the Indies were very close, and the impact of the colonial power on Indonesian society was at its height.

The ten essays originated from a conference in Groningen on the economic history of Indonesia, in which historians and economists from Australia, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom participated. Topics covered include the long-term development of Indonesian national income; income flows from the Indies to the Netherlands; agricultural production on Java; and the export production of Sumatra. A comparative perspective is supplied by contrasting the Indonesian experience with that of India, Malaya, and Thailand. The economic role of the Chinese in Indonesian and the role of government in economic policy-making also receive particular attention.

The editors, Angus Maddison (1926) and Gé Prince, are members of the Economics Faculty of the University of Groningen, where they teach economic history and development economics.

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330.959 ECO

Publisher

Dordrecht : Foris Publications., 1989

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vii + 300 hlm.; ill.; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

90-6764-450-7

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330.959

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Economic History

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Angus Maddison & Gé Prince (ed.)

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