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(More customer reviews)Unfortunate honesty... only review here is from my mother, Judy Rae Smith. Loving she is, but unbiased she is not. Ok.
I think the book does a decent job of explaining why some large oil-exporting countries evince political instability while most others don't. One thing I think it does well, and innovatively, is to establish the conditional effects of oil wealth--which some immensely smart scholars like Thad Dunning, Miriam Lowi and others have also elucidated. But it is imperfect, and I enjoy reviewing the article and book-length manuscripts by others who challenge, elaborate, my arguments in Hard Times. Mostly I was after accumulation of knowledge in writing it, and truthfully so many good pieces of research have come my way in the last three years that I am confident that has happened. See my author's page for contact information if you want directions to such research. --Ben Smith
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