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The price of oil is arguably the most important in the world economy. How did we become so dependent - and are we ever likely to wean ourselves off it?

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Mon 9 Sep 2019 03:50GMT

Sources

Lisa Margonell - Oil on the Brain Penguin Random House, New York 2007

Daniel Yergin The Prize London: Simon and Schuster 1991

Spencer Dale 'New Economics of Oil' Speech to the Society of Business Economists Annual Conference 13 October 2015

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