Legitimacy without the Duty to Obey
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account.
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account.
Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and ener
Throughout, the history of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, natural resource wealth has been critical for its economies.
This paper investigates whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008-09 financial crisis.
Development economists should stop acting as categorical advocates (or detractors) for specific approaches to development.
Addresses the questions of whether creating a market for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions is a "cure worse than the disease itself" and offers a better understanding of the issues, the rhetoric, and th
Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or coagglomerate.
Building on an idea in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), this article investigates the application of synthetic control methods to comparative case studies.
Book abstract: Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with m
Many metropolitan areas have experienced extreme boom-bust cycles over the past century.
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