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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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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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