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The economic history of Thailand
Author(s) -
Falkus Malcolm
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/aehr.311004
Subject(s) - frontier , diversification (marketing strategy) , closing (real estate) , theme (computing) , population growth , development economics , population , china , classification of discontinuities , history , economics , geography , economic history , sociology , business , demography , archaeology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , finance , marketing , computer science , operating system
The article, which is a first step in writing a general economic history of Thailand, highlights the marked discontinuities between stagnation and growth, mono–crop culture and diversification, which occurred around the 1950s. While many factors were involved, an underlying theme was the transition from ‘expensive’ to ‘cheap’ labour caused by population growth and the closing of the rice frontier.