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

Ragnar Torvik, James Robinson and Thierry Verdier.

Published in:

Journal of Development Economics 2014 106  p.p. 194 - 198.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.09.004

Abstract:

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.

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