SOUTHEAST-ASIA INCORPORATION INTO THE WORLD RICE MARKET - A REVISIONIST VIEW

The author argues that the conventional ''story'' of Southeast Asia's incorporation into the world rice market: (a) starts too late; (b) is too abrupt; (c) is insufficiently specified; and (d) gives too much explanatory weight to exogenous variables relating to trade and exchange, and too little to endogenous variables relating to Southeast Asian rice production itself. He then offers an alternative ''story'', which takes account of these problems.