Ratliff, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, is also curator of the Americas Collection at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He begins his account of the Southeast Asian
country by reviewing the historical and cultural factors that have contributed significantly to the situation there as of 2008, including the remarkable economic improvements. Then he looks at
recent pro-market, political and economic reforms, the numerous new forms of private entrepreneurship, special challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises, and confronting the world in
the form of the US and the World Trade Organization. Distributed in the US by Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
