This Element documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse, diagnoses its sources, and directs scholarly attention towards what the authors believe will be more fruitful avenues of future research. In the scholarship to date, there is substantial regional...

The proposition that the Resource Rent Tax can have a neutral effect on the level of mining investment has re-surface in recent literature. This paper shows that the proposition is essentially false.

The proposition that the Resource Rent Tax can have a neutral effect on the level of mining investment has re-surface in recent literature. This paper shows that the proposition is essentially false.