Author: Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz
Title: The Price of Wealth: Economics and Institutions in the Middle East
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,330 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Some light spotting to spine. VG. ¶ Contents: Oil & Labor Exporters in the International Economy: Institutional Origins in Isolation: The Nationalmarket Unified; Taxation & Economic Fragmentation; The Boom: The Business of the Bureaucracy; Migrants & Magnates; Informal & Formal Banking; The Bust: Beyond the Paradox of Autonomy; Worlds within the Third World.

Keywords: Political Economics, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oil Industry, Economic History, Economy Economics, Political Politics,