The phantom of liberty?: economic growth and the vulnerability of small states

By H. Armstrong, R. Read. 2002

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Introduction: The MIRAB model in the twenty‐first century (2006, background): “Armstrong and Read’s paper here builds on their previously published findings that small states display stronger economic performance than an orthodox development economist would expect (Armstrong and Read, 2002), that small dependent territories outperform sovereign small states (Armstrong and Read”
Managing the hinterland beyond: Two ideal‐type strategies of economic development for small island territories (2006, background): “In their powerful critique of the alleged structural vulnerability of many small (often island) territories, Armstrong and Read (2002) conclude that smaller jurisdictions actually perform economically better than larger states.”
On the Convergence of Small Island Economies with Their Metropolitan Patrons (2004, background): “Empirically, however, ‘‘vulnerability’’ as usually measured appears to have a positive, not negative, association with economic growth performance (Armstrong & Read, 2000, 2002).”