Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram is a well-known name in academic circles, an eminent economist, member of the Council of Eminent Persons, Senior Fellow at Khazanah Research Institute, and many other things as well.
We met at the book launch of Datuk Dr. Toh Kin Woon's Malaysia's New Economic Policy in its first decade, 1971 to 1980, during which Professor Jomo performed the book launch, delivering this lecture that emphasised the importance of the economic history, and indeed the history of our nation for providing an insight into how things have developed within Malaysia and at large from the time of Tun Razak to Tun Hussein, beginning from the base that was the May 13th riots built upon the post-colonial state that Britain had left us after our role as the crown jewel had exhausted.
In this lecture, Professor Jomo offered many golden nuggets of insight into history, economics, and into the development of Malaysian society as a foundation for a discussion of the NEP, articulating the many different state forces and actors who were in place at that point in time, offering some insight into the development of the NEP, his collaborations with Dr. Toh at UKM, and the importance of history for understanding our current role in this world.
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A transcript of this lecture can be found here, if you prefer to read instead:
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Thank you, Prof Jomo, for this interesting lecture, and congratulations, Dr Toh, once again on creating an incredible book, which I have already had the privilege to finish.
There is much more to learn than what I already have, and I look forward to discovering more in the days ahead!
- V.
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