Jul 19, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Terence Yhip is perfectly entitled to disagree with my understanding of the Resource Curse. Serious questions of political economy have never advanced through unanimity. What he is not entitled to do, however, is attribute arguments to me that I never made and then proceed to demolish those inventions. Critiquing an argument is fair game. Mischaracterising it is not.

Mr. Yhip’s letter is built almost entirely upon a false premise. He accuses me of attempting to “isolate economics from governance” and of suggesting that “economic policies can succeed in an institutional vacuum.”