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At the beginning of the 1970s, the oil boom created conditions for remarkable economic growth for a small group of states that exported petroleum. The sudden growth of state wealth was a result of economic rent, which came from the export of petroleum rather than from the productive abilities of economy and citizens. Those events have contributed to the growth of interest in the concept of 'rentier...