Price of Wealth

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Author: Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

ISBN-10: 0801431646

ISBN-13: 9780801431647

Category: Economic Conditions

The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. 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.\ In a world where the international economy dramatically affects domestic developments, the question of where institutions...

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The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. 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. In a world where the international economy dramatically affects domestic developments, the question of where institutions come from becomes at once more urgent and more complex. In both Saudi Arabia and Yemen, fundamental state and market institutions forged during a period of isolation at the end of World War I were destroyed and reshaped not once but three times in response to exogenous shocks. Comparing boom-bust cycles, Chaudhry exposes the alternating social and organizational origins of institutions, arguing that both broad changes in the international economy and specific forms of international integration shape institutional outcomes. Labor and oil exporters thus experience identical economic cycles but generate radically different state, market, and financial institutions in response to different resource flows. Chaudhry supplemented years of field work in Saudi Arabia and Yemen with extensive analysis of previously unavailable materials in the Saudi national archives.

AcknowledgmentsGlossary of Saudi Archival Documents1Oil and Labor Exporters in the International Economy1IInstitutional Origins in Isolation2The National Market Unified433Taxation and Economic Fragmentation101IIThe Boom4The Business of the Bureaucracy1395Migrants and Magnates1936Informal and Formal Banking226IIIThe Bust7Beyond the Paradox of Autonomy2698Worlds within the Third World308Index321