Le concept de rente: le cas des économies du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord

Fatiha Talahite

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Abstract: Despite the widespread use of the concept of rent within the literature on the oil countries of MENA, it is a concept lacking a sound theoretical foundation. The theory of the rentier state, considered one of the major contributions of Middle East Studies to Political Sciences, is based on a concept imported from Political Economics. However, economics did not succeed in building a unified theory of rent. When studying the impact of the hydrocarborn exports on such "rentier economies", economists generally mobilize theoretical tools other than rent; the only exception is the theory of rent seeking, which precisely does not relate to natural resources.

Keywords: Moyen Orient et Afrique du Nord.; Revenus pétroliers; Etat rentier; Recherche de rentes; Moyen Orient et Afrique du Nord; Oil Revenue; Rentier State; rent Seeking; MENA. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-06-21
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Published in Problèmes économiques, 2006, 2.902, pp.2-10

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