Voracious transformation of a common natural resource into productive capital

We analyze a power struggle about the control of natural resources where competing factions in society have a private stock of financial assets and a common stock of natural resources with inadequately defined private property rights. We solve a dynamic common-pool problem and obtain political econo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van der Ploeg, R
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2008