Malaysia's Look East Policy and its implications for self-sustaining growth

Abstract

'They make tallow out of cattle and money out of men'. The peculiarity of this philosophy of avarice appears to bossmont be the ideal of the honest man of recog- and of ano nized credit, and above all the idea of 975 205172 a duty of the individual towards the walvisin increase of his capital, which is assumed as an end in itself. Truly what is here preached is not simply a means of making one's way in the world, but a peculiar ethic. The infraction of its rules is treated not as foolishness but as forgetfulness of duty. This is the essence of the matter. It is not mere business astuteness, that sort of thing is common enough, it is an ethos.