The Real Oil Shock How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance

"Understanding the role of oil in our past, as this absorbing volume undertakes to do, informs a good deal about our present plight. And it should make us resolve to kick fossil fuel once and for all, for the far more democratic forms of energy now available to us." Bill McKibben, author o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Ryan C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Understanding Money and Finance
  • Chapter 2: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
  • Chapter 3: When Oil Shocked the Globe
  • Chapter 4: A Monetary Revolution
  • Chapter 5: Private Sector Takes the Control
  • Chapter 6: A New Global Debt Cycle
  • Chapter 7: Adapting with Derivatives
  • Chapter 8: Revolution and Oil Shock
  • Chapter 9: The Crash of 1982
  • Chapter 10: Conclusion