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James Hamilton explains petro-politics

by
Marc Tracy
February 02, 2011
Map of the Suez Canal.(Wikipedia)
Map of the Suez Canal.(Wikipedia)

For this morning, I talked to James Hamilton, an economics professor at the University of California, San Diego, who studies oil shocks. Guess what we discussed?

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.