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BL
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966835
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b721205
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Ross, Michael Lewin,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia /\ Michael L. Ross.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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Political economy of institutions and decisions
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) :: illustrations, map
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| ISBN
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0511041195
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: 0511302576
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: 0511510357
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: 0521791677
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: 1107404819
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: 9780511041198
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: 9780511302572
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: 9780511510359
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: 9780521791670
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: 9781107404816
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228).
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: Three Puzzles -- 2. The Problem of Resource Booms -- 3. Explaining Institutional Breakdown -- 4. The Philippines: The Legal Slaughter of the Forests -- 5. Sabah, Malaysia: A New State of Affairs -- 6. Sarawak, Malaysia: An Almost Uncontrollable Instinct -- 7. Indonesia: Putting the Forests to "Better Use" -- 8. Conclusion: Rent Seeking and Rent Seizing.
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| Abstract
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Scholars have long studied how institutions emerge and become stable. But why do institutions sometimes break down? In this book, Michael L. Ross explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states. He shows that these institutions often break down when states receive positive trade shocks - unanticipated windfalls. Drawing on the theory of rent-seeking, he suggests that these institutions succumb to a problem he calls 'rent-seizing' - the predatory behavior of politicians who seek to supply rent to others, and who purposefully dismantle institutions that restrain them. Using case studies of timber booms in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, he shows how windfalls tend to trigger rent-seizing activities that may have disastrous consequences for state institutions, and for the government of natural resources. More generally, he shows how institutions can collapse when they have become endogenous to any rent-seeking process.
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Forest management-- Environmental aspects-- Southeast Asia.
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Forest policy-- Environmental aspects-- Southeast Asia.
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Logging-- Economic aspects-- Southeast Asia.
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Rent (Economic theory)
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Timber-- Economic aspects-- Southeast Asia.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Green Business.
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Forest management-- Environmental aspects.
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Forest policy-- Environmental aspects.
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Logging-- Economic aspects.
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NATURE-- Natural Resources.
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Rent (Economic theory)
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Timber-- Economic aspects.
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Southeast Asia.
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| Dewey Classification
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333.75/137/0959
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| LC Classification
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SD387.E58R67 2001eb
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