Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar; Verdier, Thierry
• 署名单位: Harvard University; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.09.004
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 194-198
• 关键词: Natural resources; political economy; clientelism

摘要

In this note we show how a considerably simpler model than the one in our original JDE 2006 paper generates all the same results. We also acknowledge an error in the specification of a utility function in our previous paper. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.