The price of wealth : economies and institutions in the Middle East /

Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz.

The price of wealth : economies and institutions in the Middle East / Kiren Aziz Chaudhry. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)1997. - 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations. - Cornell studies in political economy .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.




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HC415 / .P753 1997