oil rush Concepts

Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn

by Chris Hughes · 20 Feb 2018 · 173pp · 53,564 words

in his lifetime been a World War II fighter pilot, backcountry guide, and commercial fisherman. In the mid-1970s, during the heady days of the oil rush, Hammond found himself at the helm of a state flush with cash. He decided to propose a novel idea he had come up with years

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words

and fortune. Today, Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, is one of those towns to which migrants have flocked in search of North America’s new “oil rush” riches. Canada only seriously tapped its oil sands (a patch larger than England) after the OPEC embargo of 1973. Suddenly Fort McMurray found itself properly

Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics

by Francis Fukuyama · 27 Aug 2007

Affairs, July 13, 2005. 9. Testimony of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 5, 2006. 10. Marianne Lavelle, “The Oil Rush,” U.S. News & World Report, April 24, 2006. 11. Daniel Yergin, “Ensuring Energy Security,” Foreign Affairs (March-April 2006). 12. Amory Lovins, Winning the Oil

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words

up to fifteen years in jail). It was a media event for the new age: thousands of us sat glued to streaming footage of the oil rushing from its source; we forwarded videos of the burning rig, black smoke choking the sky; Stephen Colbert’s pithy comment—“In honor of oil-soaked

Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices

by Robert McNally · 17 Jan 2017 · 436pp · 114,278 words

-20/shale-as-world-s-swing-producer-signals-jagged-future-for-oil. Dolson, Hildegarde. The Great Oildorado: The Gaudy and Turbulent Years of the First Oil Rush: Pennsylvania 1859–1880. New York: Random House, 1959. Domanski, Dietrich, Jonathan Kearns, Marco Jacopo Lombardi, and Hyun Song Shin. “Oil and Debt.” Bank for International

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel · 14 Apr 2008

that the poorest economies can quickly rebound from war. If the old diamond companies are suffering, the rest of the country isn’t. In the oil rush that has seized much of Africa in recent years, we may be witnessing another disconnect 184 TH E RO A D BA CK F RO

The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

by Ruchir Sharma · 5 Jun 2016 · 566pp · 163,322 words

, drilling rigs have been silenced from Texas to North Dakota, shale jobs are drying up, and shale boomtowns are turning into ghost towns. Though this oil rush leaves behind a productive new industry, a plus in the long run as it will likely keep a lid on U.S. energy prices, it

Cable Cowboy

by Mark Robichaux · 19 Oct 2002

big boys. By the mid-1960s, Bob Magness had realized the potential of community antenna to fill a vast need; he likened cable to the oil rush days in his native Oklahoma and Texas. Though he was building his own wealth, building TCI had given Magness a thrill not unlike betting big

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

by Norman Davies · 27 Sep 2011

to promise industrial development of more than provincial importance. Discovered in the 1850s in the district of Borysław-Drohobycz, it grew explosively into a wild oil-rush area of near-unregulated drilling and exploration. Foreign investment, mainly French and German, poured in. Borysław and nearby Tustanowice saw hundreds of oil shafts spring

Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles

by Michael Gross · 1 Nov 2011 · 613pp · 200,826 words

.A., and with the money it produced plus backing from banker Isaias Hellman, among others, began leasing every promising property they could find. An unprecedented oil rush followed. It had taken thirty-five years, but Wilson’s dream of a west coast oil boom had finally come true. As railroads switched from