The sources

Chapter 25. The Intelligence Curse

7 sources behind this chapter. Each one carries a note on what it is doing in the argument.

The chapter itself, for readers of the book

  1. Institutions and the Resource Curse

    Mehlum, Halvor, Karl Ove Moene, and Ragnar Torvik The Economic Journal, January 2006

    The institutional explanation behind the Norway exception in Chapter 25: resource wealth is damaging under grabber-friendly institutions but can support growth under producer-friendly institutions; Norway is identified among the resource-rich growth winners.

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    Mehlum, Halvor, Karl Ove Moene, and Ragnar Torvik. 'Institutions and the Resource Curse.' The Economic Journal 116, no. 508, January 2006, pp. 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01045.x

  3. Humankind: A Hopeful History

    Bregman, Rutger Bloomsbury, 2020

    Conceptual debt for Chapter 25’s argument about human co-operation, institutions and the danger of allowing structural power to be mistaken for human nature.

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    Bregman, Rutger. 'Humankind: A Hopeful History.' Bloomsbury, 2020.

  4. Proposed Data Center

    City of Inver Grove Heights IGH City Updates, updated July 2026

    Official city update on the proposed Inver Grove Heights data centre, the one-year moratorium and the developer’s threatened legal action.

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    City of Inver Grove Heights. ‘Proposed Data Center.’ IGH City Updates, updated July 2026.

  5. The Intelligence Curse

    Drago, Luke, and Rudolf Laine The Intelligence Curse, April 2025

    The essay series that gives the chapter its name and central structural worry: sufficiently capable machines may shift income and power towards whoever owns them, however talented everyone else becomes.

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    Drago, Luke, and Rudolf Laine. 'The Intelligence Curse.' April 2025.

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