The Price of Wealth : Economies and Institutions in the Middle East.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series .
- Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series .
The Price of Wealth -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Saudi Archival Documents -- 1. Oil and Labor Exporters in the International Economy -- I. Institutional Origins in Isolation -- 2. The National Market Unified -- 3. Taxation and Economic Fragmentation -- II. The Boom -- 4. The Business of the Bureaucracy -- 5. Migrants and Magnates -- 6. Informal and Formal Banking -- III. The Bust -- 7. Beyond the Paradox of Autonomy -- 8. Worlds within the Third World -- Index.
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.
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Saudi Arabia -- Economic policy. Yemen (Republic) -- Economic policy. Middle East -- Economic conditions. Saudi Arabia -- Politics and government. Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government.