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May 1978 · The easy chair · Previous · Next

The Arabian oil bubble:
Exploiting the belief in perfidious Araby

By Lewis H. Lapham



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SEE ALSO: Energy conservation; Energy policy; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); Petroleum industry and trade
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