The Complexity of an Oil Economy : A theoretical analysis of the Angolan economy as a complex adaptive system
In this thesis, the development and current state of the Angolan economy is analyzed on the basis of complexity theory in order to emphasize the interactions and relationships of the heterogeneous agents in it as well as the consequences of those interactions for the economy as a whole. A political economy approach is used to analyze the dualities and polarizations in the economy, and two stylized facts are identified as important for understanding the development of the Angolan economy; the deindustrialization of a country due to a booming oil sector causing an exchange rate appreciation in t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Student thesis |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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Södertörns högskola
Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper |
Schlagwörter: | Angola / complexity / agent-based computational economics / Dutch disease |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27050509 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28239 |