What we should focus on is not policy that is interventionist or otherwise, for the sake of it, but rather policy that engineers fair, competitive arenas for firms to succeed or fail.
What we should focus on is not policy that is interventionist or otherwise, for the sake of it, but rather policy that engineers fair, competitive arenas for firms to succeed or fail.
It is difficult to imagine a more natural target for the state subordination of private power than American Big Tech, particularly with populist politics dominating the day.
Naturally, it is not easy to translate notions of “transcendence” to the political economy, but these are examples, I think, that I would like to see that demonstrate a growing maturity in our political economy. That, in and of itself, is pretty “expensive”.
Fiction writing is difficult. Figuring out dialogue, making characters seem relatively believable, doing more “showing” instead of “telling”, trying to be more descriptive of scenes; I have all the respect in the world for writers of fiction.
This is Part 3, the final part in a series of fictional articles that I started two months ago (September 2025) in The Edge
This is Part 2 in a series of fictional articles that I started in September 2025 in The Edge
For the next few articles, beginning with this one, I want to see if I can write a series of fictional short stories that illustrate different views of economic development. This is Part I.
Does it really matter if Malaysia — or any developing country — hits some arbitrary threshold of “high-income”? Or is it more important that we maintain steady, sustainable economic growth and economic development?
It is just that, for a middle power such as Malaysia, we may get far more bang for our buck by focusing on how well we diffuse technology broadly, as opposed to how well we invent the next big thing
Much of the foundation of hard science fiction is effectively taking our reality today and asking, “If this one thing were different, how would the world look?”
We need to reckon with power dynamics and decades of cultural evolution which led us to the “equilibrium” in which we find ourselves today. But there is hope, of course, by being adaptive and open in our paradigms of the world
But the point of the devolution of power is to ultimately build a more extremophile political economy that can then serve to ensure a more resilient Malaysia amid greater volatility globally