{"product_id":"serving-a-new-nation-ooi-kee-beng-9789814345422","title":"Serving a New Nation: Baey Lian Peck's Singapore Story","description":"The story of Dr Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a lot about a Singapore caught in pathological haste and prone towards ignoring values that do not add to the financial bottom line. The innovativeness of Dr Baey did not only make him a very wealthy man before he was forty, it also made him an indispensable actor in the implementation of urgently constructed national policies. Political leaders such as Dr Toh Chin Chye, Lim Kim San, Chua Sian Chin and Dr Goh Keng Swee picked him to solve pressing problems such as skyrocketing inflation in the early 1970s, the crisis in prisoner ward in the late 1970s, and the drug addiction epidemic in that same latter period. His one condition for taking on public positions was that he should not be paid. It was exactly this independent trait that made him so highly effective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ooi Kee Beng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9814345423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789814345422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Ooi Kee Beng","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941400051967,"sku":"9789814345422","price":55.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6496a9b4-9e32-4454-a901-4f9c75ef5222.jpg?v=1681452705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/serving-a-new-nation-ooi-kee-beng-9789814345422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}