Abstract
At the intersection of two important questions of our time, namely global peace and sustainability of the planet Earth, stands a commodity beyond all commodities that has wreaked havoc with the material and mind of humanity in recent times. This commodity is none other than oil, whose realities as well as its fictional impression have both made a consequential impact upon public opinion today. In this book, we hope to demonstrate what is right and what is wrong with learned opinion across the board, before showing what is amiss with popular perception.
If you would have a thing shrink, You must first stretch it …
—Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
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Bina, C. (2013). Introduction. In: A Prelude to the Foundation of Political Economy. The Economics of the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137106971_1
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