History Lessons Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World

By Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Stanley L. Engerman. 2000

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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability (2016, neutral): “An important distinction that has been made in the literature is between point source and diffuse natural commodities (Sokoloff & Engerman, 2000; Isham et al., 2005).”
Partisan Competition, Growth, and the Franchise (2005, positive): “For example, in 1874 Chilean conservatives pushed for extending the franchise into poorer agriculturalists considered supportive of conservative policies (Valenzuela, 1996).”
Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse: Reconciling a Conundrum (2008, neutral): “Finally, as suggested by Sokoloff and Engerman (2000), resource abundance can lead to increased inequality and this could harm growth through lower savings or investment rates, lower quality of institutions, creditmarket imperfections, distorting redistribution, or socio-political unrest (Barro,…”
The Varieties of Rentier Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth * (2003, neutral): “" 9 See also Sokoloff and Engerman (2000); cf. Baldwin (1956).”
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa (2012, positive): “…others have argued for a more nuanced effect of geography on economic outcomes, which works through past interactions with key historical events (Diamond, 1997; Engerman & Sokoloff, 1997, 2002; Sokoloff & Engerman, 2000; Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, 2001; Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, 2002).”