The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States by Terry Lynn Karl

The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States

Terry Lynn Karl

380 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative slow-paced
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The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing ...

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