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Paperback Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia Book

ISBN: 0801472776

ISBN13: 9780801472770

Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia

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That natural resources can be a curse as well as a blessing is almost a truism in political analysis. In many late-developing countries, the "resource curse" theory predicts, the exploitation of valuable resources will not result in stable, prosperous states but rather in their opposite. Petroleum deposits, for example, may generate so much income that rulers will have little need to establish efficient, tax-extracting bureaucracies, leading to...

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