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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