The price of oil now is quite low and do you think well those countries that have a lot of oil, now they're going to be better off because they'll be put on this new development path? Is it somehow too late that they're stuck with the bad institutions? "Any generalization is fraught with the problems nor way will do well whether the oil price is high or low," he says.
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able to overcome the middle income trap, Paul Krugman, Sach's favorite novel, premature deindustrialization, and how to reform graduate economics education.
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