Crude World
Peter Maass travelled to the oil states of Africa, the Middle East, South America and Russia to report on what oil does to the places that produce it. Crude World is a portrait of corruption, violence and environmental damage, and of the so-called resource curse at work.
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Adam Haslett
It shows the way in which business of that scale, even if practised under what passes for law in those countries, ends up as corruption. So there is this evil of greed and disequilibrium of one substance taking over an entire economy and the effects that has on the possibility of any other kind of development.
Interview · July 2010
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