Norway’s Secret Oil Poilcy Weapon Was an Iraqi

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

FT.com / Reportage – The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil. Incredible story on multiple fronts — the power of luck in personal lives, the power of market-based socialist planning in dealing with exogenous economic shocks, the vagaries of national myth and memory.

(found via rc3)

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2 Responses to Norway’s Secret Oil Poilcy Weapon Was an Iraqi

  1. Nora Bombay says:
    September 1, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    OOOOH. Wonderful article. Thank you for the link.

    Reply
  2. Tobi says:
    September 8, 2009 at 6:51 am

    ..wow realy insightfull article. Thanks Michael

    Reply

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