Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Modern Myth of King Midas: Structure, Choice, and the Development Trajectory of States
  • 2. Spanish Gold to Black Gold: Commodity Booms Then and Now
  • 3. The Special Dilemma of the Petro-State
  • 4. The Making of a Petro-State
  • 5. Oil and Regime Change: The Institutions of Pacted Democracy
  • 6. The Instant Impact of a Bonanza
  • 7. The Politics of Rent Seeking
  • 8. From Boom to Bust: The Crisis of Venezuelan Democracy
  • 9. Petro-States in Comparative Perspective
  • 10. Commodities, Booms, and States Revisited.