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Article name Resource Curse Studies in Economics and the Potential of their Results using in Modernization Conception
Authors Trubitsyn D.V. Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor, dvtrubitsyn@yandex.ru
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Annotation The article expounds the results of the research of the resource curse phenomenon in the context of the modernization problem. Through the socio-philosophical analysis of the resource curse idea and other adjacent theoretical constructs of economics (Boserup hypothesis, “Dutch disease”, “Nigerian disease”), their intersection with the modernization theory is stated. The author supposes that economic studies of the resource curse that directly touch upon the problem of interaction between nature and society can be of great theoretical and methodological importance for philosophical understanding of modernization process, and the phenomenon itself is connected with fundamental laws of socio-historical development. The analysis revealed that, though the discussion on the resource curse problem is not finished in economics, the thesis about negative effects of resource abundance on social development is rather specified by most scientists than denied. Both the discussion itself and the specifications allow formulating theoretical positions, important for understanding of what occurs in resource abundant countries. It is shown that economic studies cannot resolve a range of contradictions of the resource curse theory, staying in isolation from historical and socio-philosophical studies. It requires theoretical and methodological means beyond economic science, bringing in studies of large-scale socio-historical transformations of long durations as well as socio-philosophical studies that operate with such concepts as “modernization”, “agrarian society” and “industrial society”. On the other hand, economic studies of the phenomenon, being the most exact and scientific, are a methodological reference point for historical and philosophical research.
Key words modernization, resource curse, economic development, economics, social philosophy.
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