عنوان

Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia /

(Number (ISBN

0511041195

(Number (ISBN

0511302576

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0511510357

(Number (ISBN

0521791677

(Number (ISBN

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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b721205

Title Proper

Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael L. Ross.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map

Series Title

Political economy of institutions and decisions

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228).

Text of Note

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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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.

Title

Timber booms and institutional breakdown in southeast Asia.

International Standard Book Number

0521791677

Forest management-- Environmental aspects-- Southeast Asia.

Forest policy-- Environmental aspects-- Southeast Asia.

Logging-- Economic aspects-- Southeast Asia.

Rent (Economic theory)

Timber-- Economic aspects-- Southeast Asia.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Environmental Economics.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Green Business.

Forest management-- Environmental aspects.

Forest policy-- Environmental aspects.

Logging-- Economic aspects.

NATURE-- Natural Resources.

Rent (Economic theory)

Timber-- Economic aspects.

Southeast Asia.

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BUS-- 094000

BUS-- 099000

NAT-- 038000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Ross, Michael Lewin,1961-

Date of Transaction

20201208124723.0

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[Book]

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