This survey focuses on political economy theories of the resource curse and scrutinizes how well, or poorly, these theories have been integrated with empirical work. One reason why this integration is important lies in the practical importance of pinning down the causal links involved in the resource curse. A second reason for focusing on integration of theory and empirics is that the resource ...

Reason is one of the criteria for examining the validation of tradition – so much that disagreement with it can discredit it and agreement with it can be considered as a validation. The goal of this study is to show the role of different reasoning faculties in validating the interpretational traditions. This study was conducted using a library-based study and the method of conceptual analysis. ...