Friedrichs, Jörg; Inderwildi, Oliver R. - In: Energy Policy 62 (2013) C, pp. 1356-1365
The carbon curse is a new theory, related to but distinct from the resource curse. It states that fossil-fuel rich countries tend to follow more carbon-intensive developmental pathways than [if they were] fossil-fuel poor countries, due to a hitherto unappreciated syndrome of causal mechanisms....