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The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of economic development. Is an abundance of natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic performance? The field of Economic History offers an excellent vantage to explore the relevance of institutions, technical progress and supply-demand drivers. Natural Resources and Economic Growth contains theoretical and empirical articles by leading scholars who have studied this subject in different historical periods from the 19 th century to the present day and in different parts of the world. Part I presents the theoretical issues and discusses the meaning of the "curse" and the relevance of the historical perspective. Part II captures the diversity of experiences, presenting thirteen independent case studies based on historical results from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe. This book emphasizes that an abundance of natural resources is not a fixed situation. It is a process that reacts to changes in the structure of commodity prices and factor endowments, and progress requires capital, labour, technical change and appropriate institutional arrangements. This ab

Who reads Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)?

Author

Marc Badia-Miró, Vicente Pinilla and Henry Willebald

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138782181

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Nature, Business