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This edited collection is a critical evaluation of the impact of fiscal imbalances on the economy of industrialized and developing countries, prepared by a diverse group of scholars involved in advanced research on public finance.

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In the emerging post-Cold War new world order, the economics and politics of the oil industry will be quite different. A very useful tool for researchers, scholars, and businesspeople in energy and environmental policy economics, political economics, economics of natural resources, and regional economics.

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Examines a variety of topics such as the experiences of OPEC and non-OPEC oil suppliers in the 1980s, the adjustment of oil importers to changes in the market, the impact of oil price changes on both the developed and developing world, and future developments in the global oil market.

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Globalization does have vices, however, cultural clashes, environmental degradation, and displaced workers among them. The contributors to this volume contend that the give and play between the positive and negative sides of globalization will eventually result in a smoother and more equitable process.