Economic growth and natural resources: Does the curse of natural resources extend to the 50 US states?

Explorations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Essays in Honor of Gardner M. Brown, Jr

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 122-138

  Johnson, Ronald N ^a  

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DOI: 10.4337/9781847202963.00014     Document Type: Chapter

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