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

by Benjamin Smith and Benjamin B. Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801472776
• ISBN13: 9780801472770
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher