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Tun Abdul Razak: Imagining Malaysia’s Future Through His Lenses
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adminReview by Phar Kim Beng, PhD Anyone who approaches “Tun Abdul Razak: Imagining Malaysia’s Future Through His Lenses,” is bound to come away disappointed. Why? While there are biographical and chronological details of Tun Abdul Razak’s tenure as the second Prime Minister of Malaysia (1970-1976), not excluding his…
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Contesting Malaysia’s Integration into the World Economy (Palgrave McMillan 2021)
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adminReview by Phar Kim Beng “Show me the book the man reads, I will proceed to show you the man,” affirmed George Bernard Shaw. While there is much truism to what Shaw may have once said, “Contesting Malaysia’s Integration into the World Economy,” as edited by Rajah Rasiah, Azirah…
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Strategic Leadership of Muhammad
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adminSpanning over eight chapters, backed by copious notes on the early history of Islam, especially the life and military exploits of Prophet Muhammad SAAS, one might be inclined to think that Rozhan Othman is attempting yet more of the same. Heavier references to the life of the Prophet SAAS, deeper…
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On Muslim Democracy: Essays and Dialogues
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adminThe compatibility of Islam and Democracy is an old theme. The concept of Syura, or, Consultation, for example, is often invoked by many as one of the finest examples of democratic dialogue on how a leader could be elected after the demise of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). The…
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The Euro And The Battle Of Ideas
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admin“The Euro and the Battle of Ideas,” written by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau is premised on a very simple and powerful basis: that different historical experiences, hence ideologies of what constitutes governance, have led to different expectations of what the Euro should be. Stripped from this book…
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The Inevitable
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adminNotwithstanding Moore’s Law that the powers of computer chips will double every eighteen months, if not less, the fact remains that computers are changing the world faster than they can change themselves. Yet, Kevin Kelly noted, computers and the internet were around in 1991. In fact, they were created in…
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Global Inequality
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adminGlobal inequality has often been measured from the standpoint of the developed versus the developing countries; which is otherwise captured in the development study literature as the UN Human Development Index. The picture that one obtains is global inequality from the standpoint of two clusters of countries arrayed against.. The…
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Platform Revolution
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adminAll roads lead to Rome, goes one saying. Why Rome? For the longest time, Rome was the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, before it broke up into the Byzantine Empire in the East that is now Turkey. Fast forward to the 21st century, all global economic exchanges seem to…
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Platform Scale
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adminSangeet Paul Choudary is one of the world’s leading thinkers on “platform economy.” The concept has also variously been described as the “gig economy,” “the gift economy,” “the on-demand economy,” and the “share economy.” Regardless of the monikers, this is an impressive book on two counts. It is concise…
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The Gig Economy
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adminThere is nothing as certain as death and taxes. But one should add retrenchment in a globalizing world. At the rate the world is becoming a giant globe of trading space, there is no guarantee that the most expensive and cheapest jobs won’t be shipped out and shipped away, permanently.…