Oil Is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States

by Pauline Jones Luong and Erika Weinthal

Book Overview

This book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a constant across time and space and has presumed that mineral-rich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521148081
• ISBN13: 9780521148085
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"