Mason C. Hoadley

Describes how the VOC's quest for saleable tropical goods transformed Javanese society, showing that the impact of the 18th-century Dutch-Javanese joint venture anticipated the Cultivation System, and that the VOC did not work within a pre-existing Javanese "feudal" system; it created one.

Topics range from macro perspectives of Indonesia's Economi Pancasila and Thailand's Buddhist Economics, through Malaysia's Islamic financial institutions, to regional and international perspectives of the remaining ASEAN countries and the IMF/World Bank, all tied up by setting them within a diachronic, historical framework.