The author, who was Monetary and Fiscal Advisor to the Indonesian government and Economic Advisor to the National Planning Bureau of Indonesia during 1952 and 1953, reflects on Indonesian economic studies and policies in the 1950s. Dutch presence in the higher echelons of the new Indonesian...

The author, a former monetary and fiscal advisor to the Indonesian government, takes a new look at the Dutch social scientist and colonial civil servant Jan Boeke and discusses Boeke's theory of sociological dualism and the influence of this theory on Indonesian development during the last...