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Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia / / Michael L. Ross



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Autore: Ross Michael Lewin <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia / / Michael L. Ross Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 333.75/137/0959
Soggetto topico: Forest management - Environmental aspects - Southeast Asia
Forest policy - Environmental aspects - Southeast Asia
Logging - Economic aspects - Southeast Asia
Timber - Economic aspects - Southeast Asia
Rent (Economic theory)
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-228).
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-12163-9
1-280-43005-2
9786610430055
0-511-17581-7
0-511-04119-5
0-511-15647-2
0-511-30257-6
0-511-51035-7
0-511-04686-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818020503321
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Serie: Political economy of institutions and decisions.