Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths

by Steven M. Gorelick

Book Overview

Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics.

There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405195487
• ISBN13: 9781405195485
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.8"