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The idea of Europe's using trade with the Americas to abolish the land constraint, and the calculations of the "ghost acres" added thereby, are from Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence, Princeton University Press, 2000.
4. Natural Resources
The original paper showing that natural resources are generally bad for your economic health is by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 5398, 1995.
Much of the material on Zambia comes from my reporting trips to the country. I am grateful to Beverley Warmington, of the Department for International Development, and Dipak Patel, the former Zambian trade minister, for their time and expertise.
The paper comparing Sao Tome e Principe with Cape Verde is by Pedro Vicente: "Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa," Oxford University Department of Economics Discussion Paper 317, 2007.
For the remarkable story of Botswana, I relied on the following: Scott Beaulier and Robert Subrick, "Mining Institutional Quality: How Botswana Escaped the Natural Resource Curse," Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 2007; Scott Beaulier, "Explaining Botswana's Success: The Critical Role of Post-Colonial Policy," Cato Journal 23 (2003); and Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, "An African Success Story: Botswana," MIT Department of Economics Working Paper 01-37, 2001.
For a comprehensive tour of how natural resources have helped debase several African countries, see the excellent account by Nicholas Shaxson, Poisoned Wells, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
John Steinbeck, The Pearl, Viking, 1947.
5. Religion
Max Weber's writings can be found in the following collections: Stephen Kalberg, ed., The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2001; Stanislav Andreski, ed., Max Weber on Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Religion, HarperCollins, 1983; Sam Whimster, ed., The Essential Weber, Routledge, 2004.
For commentaries on Weber and the Protestant ethic, see S. N Eisenstadt, ed., The Protestant Ethic and Modernization, Basic Books, 1968; Gordon Marshall, In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism, Columbia University Press, 1982; R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Harcourt, Brace, 1926.
Details on the tenets of Islam and their effect on growth are from Maxime Rodinson, Islam and Capitalism, Pantheon, 1974; Timur Kuran, "The Economic Impact of Islamic Fundamentalism," in Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby, eds., Fundamentalisms and the State, University of Chicago Press, 1993; Timur Kuran, "The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East," University of Southern California Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Research Paper C01-12, 2002; Subhi Labib, "Capitalism in Medieval Islam," Journal of Economic History 29 (1969).
The groundbreaking study on the recent relationship between Islam and growth is by Marcus Noland, "Religion, Culture and Economic Performance," Institute for International Economics Working Paper 03-8, 2003.
For Hinduism and growth, and an economic explanation of slavery, see J. S. Uppal, "Hinduism and Economic Development in South Asia," International Journal of Social Economics 13 (1986); Evsey Domar, "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis," Economic History Review 30 (1970).
A broader assessment of the impact of religion and culture on growth is in Deepak Lai, Unintended Consequences, The MIT Press, 2001.
The story about the apparent laziness of Japanese workers appears in Jagdish Bhagwati (Gene Grossman, ed.), Essays in Development Economics, vol. 1: Wealth and Poverty, The MIT Press, 1985.
An account of how ethnic and religious minorities dominate business in many developing countries is in Amy Chua, World on Fire, Doubleday, 2002.
6. Politics of Development
The classic paper on the operation of interest groups is Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, Harvard University