Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
In his newest book, Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World, one of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy and development putting shoppers into business with some of today's most dangerous men. Blood Oil shows how the West can now lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, and by getting consumers out of business with the men of blood. "Have you ever worried that your spending might be supporting the 'sociopathic rulers and sadistic militias' that blight so many countries in Africa and around the world? Leif Wenar has written the indispensable guide, combining politics, economics, and ethics to tell us just how and why we are all involved, and what we ought to do to make the world a better place." –Angus Deaton, 2015 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, and author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality “Philosophers rarely write big books that could change the world, but Blood Oil is such a book.” –Peter Singer, author of One World and The Most Good You Can Do "This book is one of those rare manifestos that awaken people to a pressing ethical issue by changing the way they see the world.” –Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and How the Mind Works © Oxford University Press
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