Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia
(Part of the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series)
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In this book, Michael L. Ross explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states. Using case studies of timber booms in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, he shows that these institutions often break down when states receive positive trade shocks--unanticipated windfalls. Drawing on the theory of rent-seeking, he suggests that these institutions succumb to a problem he calls rent-seizing--the predatory behavior of politicians who seek to supply rent to others, and who purposefully dismantle institutions that restrain them.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107404819
ISBN13:9781107404816
Release Date:July 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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