Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies
本书考察了穆斯林征服的制度遗产如何影响当代穆斯林社会的制度凝聚力,并分析了经济租金的变化如何解释这些社会中独裁与内战的起伏。
Eric Chaney of University of Oxford reviews “Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies” by Faisal Z. Ahmed. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Examines how the institutional legacy of Muslim conquest is a robust determinant of less cohesive institutions in contemporary Muslim societies, detailing how variation in economic rents explain ebbs and flows of dictatorship and propensity for civil wars in these societies.”