Roberto Laserna (born 1953) is a Bolivian and Spanish writer and economist who earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in regional planning.
In his later book "La Trampa del Rentismo" Laserna presents his theory on the Rent-seeking trap, and explores the influence of the abundance of natural resources in shaping the political institutions and economic culture that drives underdevelopment in Bolivia.
On the author: Caceres Romero Adolfo, Diccionario de la Literatura Boliviana, Ed Los Amigos del Libro.
Molina Fernando, El pensamiento boliviano sobre los recursos naturales, Ed.
Clave, La Paz, 1997 See also: Socio-political conflict and economic performance in Bolivia, with Jose Luis Evia and Stergios Skaperdas, https://ssrn.com/abstract=1104954 Decentralization, Local Iniktiatives and Cirizenship in Bolivia, 1994–2004, in the book Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America, edited by Andrew Selee and Enrique Peruzzotti, The Johns Hopkins University/Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009