From Windfall to Curse?: Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One: Introduction -- 1. Accounting for Growth and Decline in Venezuela -- 2. Trends and Cycles in the Venezuelan Economy -- Part Two: A Critical Survey of the "Resource Curse" Literature -- 3. Economic Explanations of the Growth Collapse in Venezuela -- 4. Political Economy Explanations of the Growth Collapse in Venezuela -- 5. Economic Liberalization, Political Instability, and State Capacity in Venezuela -- Part Three: An Alternative Political Economy of Venezuelan Growth and Decline -- 6. Toward a New Political Economy of Late Industrialization -- 7. Periodization of Industrialization Stages and Strategies in Venezuela -- 8. The Structure of and Changes in Political Settlements in Venezuela -- 9. A New View on the Political Economy of Growth in Venezuela -- Part Four: Beyond the Venezuelan Case -- 10. The Political Economy of Growth in Malaysia and Venezuela -- 11. Conclusion: Rethinking the Political Economy of Growth -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

Examines the political economy of growth in Venezuela since the discovery of oil in 1920 - Provided by publisher