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“Resource Curse” books explore the paradox that countries and regions rich in oil, gas, minerals, or other extractive resources often experience slower growth, weaker institutions, and more conflict than their less-endowed peers. Works in this category analyze the mechanisms behind this pattern—price volatility, rent-seeking and corruption, Dutch disease, authoritarian entrenchment, social inequality, and environmental harm—through economics, political science, history, and anthropology. The genre includes comparative studies and country case books (e.g., Nigeria, Venezuela, DRC, Russia), investigative journalism on extractive industries and global supply chains, community-level ethnographies from oilfields and mining towns, and policy-oriented texts proposing remedies such as stronger institutions, transparency initiatives (like EITI), sovereign wealth funds, economic diversification, local content rules, and environmental and community safeguards.

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