Proposed merger of Resource curse and Rentier state Hello as the creator of and frequent past contributor to the resource curse article I was wondering whether you had any opinions on a merger of that article with rentier state which seems to overlap in content in several areas Technically I suppose the two concepts are distinct but between the two of them I think there s potential for a solid article Resource curse is probably the more popular terminology although rentier state which looks to be an orphan at the moment actually might be a more technical term If you have any thoughts please leave me a reply either here or on thanks