Natural Resources and Economic Growth (eBook, ePUB)

Learning from History
Redaktion: Badia-Miró, Marc; Willebald, Henry; Pinilla, Vicente

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Natural Resources and Economic Growth contains theoretical and empirical articles by leading scholars who have studied this subject in different historical periods from the 19th century to the present day and in different parts of the world. Part I presents the theoretical issues and discusses the meaning of the "curse" and the relevance of the historical perspective. Part II captures the diversity of experiences, presenting thirteen independent case studies based on historical results from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317669180
• Artikelnr.: 49354075

Autorenporträt

Vicente Pinilla is Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Zaragoza, Spain Henry Willebald is Associate Professor, Instituto de Economía, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Marc Badia-Miró is a Lecturer at the Department of Economic History of the University of Barcelona, Spain

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. From Resource Curse to Rent Curse: A Theoretical
Perspective 2. Scarcity, frontiers and the resource curse: a historical
perspective 3. Botswana: caught in a natural resource trap 4. Oil as sweet
as honey: Linking natural resources, government institutions and domestic
capital investment in Nigeria 1960-2000 5. The USA as a Case Study in
Resource-Based Development 6. Welfare States and Development Patterns in
Latin America 7. Oil illusion and delusion: Mexico and Venezuela over the
20th Century 8. Public Finances and Natural Resources in Bolivia,
1883-2010. Is there a fiscal curse? 9. The long run development of Chile
and the Natural Resources curse. Linkages, policy and growth, 1850-1950 10.
Mixed Blessings: Mining in Indonesia's Economy, 1870-2010 11. Land
abundance, frontier expansion and appropriability: settler economies during
the First Globalization 12. The Lucky Country Syndrome in Australia:
Resources, Social Democracy, and Regimes of Development in Historical
Political Economy Perspective 13. The Institutional Foundations of Natural
Resource Based Knowledge Economies 14. Avoiding the resource curse?
Democracy and natural resources in Norway since 1900 15. Water scarcity and
agricultural growth in Spain: from curse to blessing?