Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521720700)

Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America's and the world's growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unlike other books on the current financial crisis, which have focused on U.S. indebtedness and American trade and economic policy, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises shows the reader a more complex picture in which transfers of wealth to and from the Middle East result in a perfect storm of global asset and financial market bubbles, increased unrest, terrorism and geopolitical conflicts, and eventually rising costs for energy. Only by addressing long-term energy policy challenges in the West, economic development challenges in the Middle East, and the investment horizons of financial market players can policy makers ameliorate the forces that have been causing repeating global economic crises.

Author: Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe
ISBN-10: 0521720702
ISBN-13: 9780521720700
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2009
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2010