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The Economic Retardation of the Malays—A Rejoinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Brien K. Parkinson
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There were two main reasons for writing my original article. The first was to show that man's economic environment is not the only variable (or set of variables) in economic development and that man does have some control over his own economic destiny. The second was to attempt a multi-disciplinary explanation of the Malays' economic retardation.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , May 1968 , pp. 267 - 272
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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1 Parkinson, Brien K., ‘Non-economic factors in the economic retardation of the rural Malays’, Modern Asian Studies, 1 (1967), pp. 31–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Wilder, William, ‘Islam, other factors and factors Malay backwardness: Comments on an argument’, Modern Asian Studies, 2 (1968), pp. 155–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar