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The Price of Wealth

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Description for The Price of Wealth Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.

The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two countries that typify labor and oil exporters in the developing worlds.

In a world where the international economy dramatically affects domestic developments, the question of where institutions come from becomes at once more urgent and more complex. In both Saudi Arabia and Yemen, fundamental state and market institutions forged during a period of isolation at the end ... Read more

Chaudhry supplemented years of field work in Saudi Arabia and Yemen with extensive analysis of previously unavailable materials in the Saudi national archives.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484308
SKU
V9780801484308
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About Kiren Aziz Chaudhry
Kiren Aziz Chaudhry is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews for The Price of Wealth
An interesting and thought-provoking book, well researched and well argued. It fills a vacuum in studies on both the Middle East and political economy and is recommended to all those who are interested in these fields.
Millennium: Journal of International Studies
Chaudry has written three books in one. The most important is an account of the connection between ... Read more

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