Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller - Softcover

Rubin, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030735752X ISBN 13: 9780307357526

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 2010

Synopsis

Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller Soaring oil prices have caused the recession. Expensive oil costs us more than just money. It costs jobs, homes and in the long run it is going to radically alter the way we live. For if cheap oil is the fuel that keeps the machinery of globalisation in motion, then expensive oil has the same effect as pouring diesel into an unleaded tank. Full description

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Review:

"The book is a great read, and one that should be required for anyone with a long-term interest in Canadian energy, transportation, manufacturing or agriculture."
-- The Globe and Mail

"Jeff Rubin is not your typical eggheaded senior economist.... And the controversy that has dogged his work is about to hit the boiling point.... So get set. If Jeff Rubin says something is coming, you better listen. Love him or hate him."
-- Canadian Business

"Should be mandatory reading for all corporate executives."
-- National Post

About the Author:

JEFF RUBIN is the author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a #1 national bestseller and the winner of the National Business Book Award. His second book, The End of Growth, was also a #1 bestseller and made multiple best-book-of-the-year lists in 2012. Rubin was the Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets, where he worked for over twenty years. He is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 030735752X
• ISBN 13: 9780307357526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336