How Oil Tears Countries Apart
The Revenue Watch Institute recently hosted a discussion with journalist Peter Maass about his book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.
In Crude World, Maass examines “oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it” through topics including the debate over remaining Saudi oil reserves, vast inequalities in the distribution of Equatorial Guinea’s oil wealth, attempts to rebuild Iraq’s oil industry, and the current court battle between Ecuador and Chevron.
Listen above.