Insider account by the geologist who designed Norway's licensing system.
Chosen by shared topics, the entries that hold them, and the people who recommended both.
Norway is the counterexample the whole volume is arranged around.
Why oil-rich countries have less democracy, less stability and more civil war.
Popular and partisan, but the clearest short account of the Nordic bargain.
Why ownership structure, not oil itself, set post-Soviet states' fortunes.
The fight for Caspian Sea oil from the 19th century to the present.
How these funds actually invest and what governs them; NBIM as benchmark.
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