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

Journal article: 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.

Author(s)

James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik, Thierry Verdier

Journal
  • Journal of Development Economics
Date of publication
  • 2014
Keywords JEL
D7 Q3
Pages
  • 194-198
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 106