Egypt
No single business book on Egypt, but the state-capitalism story is well covered in pieces: colonial debt and cotton, Nasser's nationalisations, infitah, and the firm-level evidence on Mubarak-era crony capitalism. The military's business empire remains the undocumented part.
8 books
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- Egypt on the BrinkTarek Osman, 2010
- The Struggle for EgyptSteven A. Cook, 2011
- Crony Capitalism in the Middle EastIshac Diwan, Adeel Malik, Izak Atiyas, 2019
Books 8
Alan Richards, John Waterbury · 1990 · Egypt is the anchor case throughout; the standard textbook on regional state-business relations.
Timothy Mitchell · 2002 · Heavy going, but the sharpest account of how land, capital and expertise were arranged.
Bruce K. Rutherford · 2008 · The liberalising business elite and the courts, written just before it broke.
Tarek Osman · 2010 · Readable political economy of the Nasser-to-Mubarak arc and the crony privatisations.
Steven A. Cook · 2011 · Nasser to Tahrir; the political frame around state capitalism and infitah.
Steffen Hertog, Giacomo Luciani, Marc Valeri · 2015 · How business associations and state elites actually bargain across the region.
Ishac Diwan, Adeel Malik, Izak Atiyas · 2019 · Firm-level evidence on politically connected business; Egypt is the core case.
Aaron Jakes · 2020 · Colonial economism and the debt-and-cotton origins of the modern Egyptian economy.