TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boomgaard,P.
TI  - Weathering the Storm: The Economics of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004487246
AV  - HC441 
U1  - 330.959 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economical crises
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region-through a sharp contraction in demand for the region's major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes, too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural land leading to higher rents and lower wages, rising indebtedness and increasing landlessness. This work thoroughly analyses the pre-war depression. It also looks at the changes in the basic structures of the economies of Southeast Asia that were of long-term importance, such as the role of the state in the economy. The authors also draw similarities and contrasts between the 1930s depression and the 1990s Asian crisis. Contributors are Peter Boomgaard, Anne Booth, Pierre Brocheux, Ian Brown, William G. Clarence-Smith, Daniel F. Doeppers, Paul H. Kratoska, J. Thomas Lindblad, Sompop Manarungsan, S. Nawiyanto, Irene Norlund, Jeroen Touwen, and Willem Wolters. Co-published with ISEAS, Singapore
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004487246
ER  -