The Price of Wealth: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome

by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

Book Overview

The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two countries that typify labor and oil exporters in the developing worlds.In a world where the international economy dramatically affects domestic developments,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484308
• ISBN13: 9780801484308
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher