From Windfall to Curse? : : Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present / / Jonathan Di John.

Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela's political ec...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One: Introduction
  • 1. Accounting for Growth and Decline in Venezuela
  • 2. Trends and Cycles in the Venezuelan Economy
  • Part 2. A Critical Survey Of The "Resource Curse" Literature
  • 3. Economic Explanations of the Growth Collapse in Venezuela
  • 4. Political Economy Explanations of the Growth Collapse in Venezuela
  • 5. Economic Liberalization, Political Instability, and State Capacity in Venezuela
  • Part Three: An Alternative Political Economy Of Venezuelan Growth And Decline
  • 6. Toward a New Political Economy of Late Industrialization
  • 7. Periodization of Industrialization Stages and Strategies in Venezuela
  • 8. The Structure of and Changes in Political Settlements in Venezuela
  • 9. A New View on the Political Economy of Growth in Venezuela
  • Part Four: Beyond The Venezuelan Case
  • 10. The Political Economy of Growth in Malaysia and Venezuela
  • 11. Conclusion: Rethinking the Political Economy of Growth
  • References
  • Index