Cover

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Title Page, Copyright Page

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Contents

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pp. v-vi

List of Tables

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pp. vii-viii

List of Figures

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pp. ix-x

The Contributors

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pp. xi-xiv

Lee Hsien Loong is Singapore’s third Prime Minister. He is also Chairman of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council, an international panel to oversee Singapore’s major effort in promoting R&D. He launched policies to build a competitive economy and an inclusive society. ...

Preface

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pp. xv-xvi

The London School of Economics and Political Science has been organising the LSE Asia Forum in different parts of Asia, with the first one held in Bangkok in March 2004, the second in Hong Kong in September 2005, and the third in New Delhi in December 2006. ...

Foreword

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pp. xvii-xviii

This book is the outcome of the fourth LSE Asia Forum which the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) co-hosted in Singapore on 11 April 2008. Global trends as well as more recent developments in the domestic politics of regional countries have made a forum on the politics of knowledge most timely. ...

Messages

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p. xix

Unlike the previous three Forums organized by the LSE in Bangkok, Hong Kong and New Delhi, the LSE Asia Forum 2008 on “The Politics of Knowledge” held in Singapore was the first to be jointly organized with a local institution as represented by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). ...

1. Role of Knowledge in the Transformation of Asia

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pp. 1-11

I am happy to join you this morning at this LSE Asia Forum. LSE has always had a strong Singapore connection. For decades, it has attracted top Singapore students studying in the UK. Many have left their mark in a wide range of professions. Several have distinguished themselves in public service. ...

2. Understanding the Politics of Knowledge: The Asian Perspective

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pp. 12-33

Knowledge is Power is today a commonplace in an increasingly globalised world in which there is a much greater and renewed emphasis on the creation of an information economy, a knowledge-based economy or a knowledge society.¹ Echoing this sentiment in his address at the LSE Asia Forum 2008, ...

3. Truth, Free Speech and Knowledge: The Human Rights Contribution

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pp. 34-56

Our understanding of knowledge underpins our attitude to free speech. If we agree that knowledge is composed of our grasping a set of truths that lie outside ourselves, then our main concern will be with how to access this understanding, how to unlock this truth. ...

4. Knowledge: The Driver of Economic Growth

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pp. 57-78

A calamitous financial crisis recently caused economies and markets to collapse. Easy credit and a lack of financial system transparency had led to excessive borrowing at low interest rates. This last had fuelled a boom in housing, property, and asset markets across tightly-coupled economies. ...

5. Commerce vs the Common Conflicts over the Commercialisation of Biomedical Knowledge

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pp. 79-110

In many countries, including many Asian countries, the bioeconomy is seen as a crucial economic driver.¹ Singapore, along with countries such as China, Korea and India, is investing heavily in research and development in this area. Indeed since the mid-1980s, Singapore has embraced the ambition of becoming ‘Asia’s biotech tiger’: ...

6. A Global Deal on Climate Change

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pp. 111-155

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are externalities in that they damage others but the cost is not borne by the emitter of pollution. Thus ‘without policy’ “the polluter does not pay” and therefore has no incentive to limit the damage inflicted on others. This represents the biggest market failure the world has seen. ...

7. The Changing Politics of Religious Knowledge in Asia: The Case of Indonesia

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pp. 156-192

At the LSE Asia Forum conference on “The Politics of Knowledge” in Singapore in April 2008, economists, lawyers, sociologists, and other specialists spoke eloquently about the complex issues arising out of the ‘Information Economy’, the dramatic expansion of education, and the deepening technological challenges facing Asia ...

Index

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pp. 193-208