ABSTRACT
The recent high-speed economic growth being achieved by some of the nonConfucian NICs in Southeast Asia, notably Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, makes one wonder if the heyday may soon be over for the socalled ‘post-Confucian hypothesis’. No doubt, this does not necessarily shut out the theoretical relevance of what is known as the ‘culturalist’ argument much in the tradition of the Weberian ‘Protestant ethic analogies’, for one may still want to pursue the search for some cultural equivalents of the Protestant ethic or, for that matter, that of the Confucian work ethic, even in the case of these non-Confucian Asian Dragons.
