Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises

by Mahmoud A. El-Gamal and Amy Myers Jaffe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521720702
• ISBN13: 9780521720700
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"