Reinterpreting the Amazon Rubber Boom: Investment, the State, and Dutch Disease

Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 73 - 109
Published: Jan 1, 1994
Abstract
Few periods in South American history have so captured the imagination and begged the attention of scholars as the Amazon rubber boom. For fifty years, the extraction of wild rubber from the jungles of the Amazon fueled unprecedented economic expansion in the region: per capita incomes in the Brazilian Amazon climbed by 800 percent; the regional population increased by more than 400 percent; urban centers and secondary towns blossomed along the...
Paper Details
Title
Reinterpreting the Amazon Rubber Boom: Investment, the State, and Dutch Disease
Published Date
Jan 1, 1994
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
73 - 109
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