Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
|
Buy Now
Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,359
Discovery Miles 33 590
|
|
Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was
dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively
instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This
distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the
long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major
contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A
Public Career Remembered, this volume brings together an
exceptional team of Singaporean scholars whose interdisciplinary
expertise and cross-generational perspectives offer a balanced
analysis and nuanced appraisal of Dr. Goh's lifetime of public
service. The book's contributors argue that Dr. Goh's past
endeavours bequeathed an enduring legacy, meriting fresh
examination and careful evaluation in order to appreciate the
heroic scale of such achievement.Particularly instructive are the
examples of Dr. Goh's thinking patriotism, fiscal prudence,
strategic pragmatism, and creative imagination at work -
technocracy at its finest - which could be of immediate, practical
benefit to a wider 'nation of technocrats'. Further illumination
comes from the insights of those contributors who had worked with
the former Deputy Prime Minister and knew him personally. For a
half-century that witnessed key turning points and phases of
development in Singapore's transformation from colonial port city
to independent global city, Dr. Goh played a leading role in the
crafting and conduct of public policy, as with the creation of
public institutions, which made the difference between survival and
success. The organization of this volume reflects both a thematic
approach and a chronological arrangement of material, the focus and
the order of chapters corresponding to the historical sequence of
public offices that Dr. Goh held: social welfare; political and
constitutional evolution; development economics and finance; the
armed forces and defence industry; the education system, from
schools through higher education to the research institutes;
Chinese studies, from Confucianism to 'China watching'; and
cultural development, with special emphasis on the creation of the
Singapore Symphony Orchestra.Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy of Public
Service will be read by present and future generations of public
servants, by Singaporeans in general, and by all students and
laypersons with an interest in the modern history of Singapore -
social, economic, political, military, and cultural - to which a
characteristically simple and frugal Dr. Goh contributed both
decisively and unreservedly.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.