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The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher St Martins Pr
Publication date October 16, 2012
Pages 258
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780230342187
ISBN-10 0230342183
Dimensions 1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $27.00
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is over?Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, the measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole. Both politicians and economists are missing the fact that the real engine of economic growth has always been cheap, abundant fuel and resources. But that era is over. The end of cheap oil, Rubin argues, signals the end of growth--and the end of easy answers to renewing prosperity.With China and India sucking up the lion's share of the world's ever more limited resources, the rest of us will have to make do with less. But is this all bad? Rubin points out that there is no research to show that peopl

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9780230342187 | details & prices | 258 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $27.00
About: In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth.

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