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TRILLION DOLLAR BABY: How Norway beat the oil giants and won a lasting fortune

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TRILLION DOLLAR BABY: How Norway beat the oil giants and won a lasting fortune

The book tells the story of the ultimately successful development of Norway’s offshore oil wealth for the benefit of the Norwegian people. It began in the 1960’s and continues to this day.

That destructive financial instrument.

That destructive financial instrument.

This is a simple but accurate outline of the financial instrument that was a major contributor to the Global Financial Cricis (GFC) and caused so much heartache to people throughout the world. I don't know who wrote the words but I acknowledge and thank that person for his/

23 Things they don’t tell you about capitalism - Ha Joon Chang

23 Things they don’t tell you about capitalism - Ha Joon Chang

TITLE: 23 Things they don’t tell you about capitalism, Allen Lane (Penguin group), London, 2010 AUTHOR: Ha – Joon Chang – Is a Korean by birth, a specialist in development economics, Reader in the Political Economy of development at Cambridge University, winner of a prize for Economic thought and prizewinning author.

The Transition Handbook - Rob Hoskins

The Transition Handbook - Rob Hoskins

BOOK: The Transition Handbook, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2009 AUTHOR: Rob Hopkins – Is an Australian who co-founder of the Transition Networking. He has been a teacher of Permaculture and natural building solutions to environment problems. He devised the energy descent plan for Kinsale in Ireland and is a publisher. He lives