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"Contents :- Tables - Figures - Contributors - Foreword - Acknowledgments - Glossary - 1. Introduction by Prema-chandra Athukorala, Arianto A. Patunru, and Budy P. Resosudarmo - Part 1: Trade - 2. Challenges of the world trading system and implications for Indonesia - 3. From spaghetti bowl to jigsaw puzzle? Addressing the disarray in the world trade system - 4. Agricultural trade consequences of Asia's economic growth: a case study of wine - Part 2: Development - 5. Economic relations between China, India and Southeast Asia: coping with threats and opportunities - 6. Revisiting the growth acceleration episodes of Indonesia and India: a political economy reading - 7. Exporting, education, and wage differentials between foreign multinationals and local plants in Indonesian and Malaysian manufacturing - 8. Indonesia: returns to occupation, education, and ability during a resource export boom - 9. Labour market regulation and employment during the Yudhoyono years in Indonesia - 10 Vietnam: trapped on the trail of the tigers? - Part 3: Political economy - 11. Rethinking the role of the state in ASEAN - 12. The ill-fated currency board proposal for Indonesia - 13. What are grain reserves worth? A generalised political economy framework - References - Index "

""In this analysis of the genealogy of western capitalist 'development', The Political Economy of Desire departs from the common position that development and underdevelopment are conceptual outcomes of the Imperialist era. Instead, it positions the genealogy of development within early Christian writings in which the western theological concepts of sin, salvation, and redemption are expounded. Linking the writings of early theologians, such as Augustine and Anselm, to the processes of modern identity formation - of which phenomena such as the West, the First World, the Rule of Law and the individual subject and his or her freedoms are but a part - the concept of development is thus traced to a particularly Christian dynamic. As such, the promise of development is considered as analogous to the way in which the Word of God was used to call Christianity into being, with the promise of salvation."--BOOK JACKET."

"The book is a critical rethinking of the nature of the classical eastern Mediterranean exchange relations with the coasts of the Indian subcontinent. It examines in the light of the extant source material and theoretical insights whether the expression Indo-Roman trade is tenable. Characterizing the nature of contemporary exchanges in detail, the book maintains that the expression Indo-Roman trade is inappropriate. It starts off with the theoretical premise that the term trade, if applied uniformly to all kinds of transactions in time and place, will lead to many anachronistic correlations, causations, and generalizations about the nature of early forms of exchange. Contemporary Mediterranean exchange of goods from the eastern world was a combination of multiple forms of exchange in which trade was just one and confined to Rome. The management of this ensemble was a heavily collaborative, extensively networked, and document-based enterprise, with precise notions of weights, measures, rates of rent, interest, price and profit accounted in terms of money. It had necessitated a stratified society, aristocracy, state system, and the entailing political economy of demand for luxury goods from far-off lands. Considering that such institutional and social structures were absent in contemporaneous peninsular India, this book dismisses the claims in south Indian historiography that early Tamil chieftains conducted overseas commerce. Neither there existed adequate naval technology to allow merchant bodies to conduct independent overseas trade nor was it necessary."