FORUM: Author Peter Maass on Oil, Crisis and Poverty
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Author Peter Maass Photo: Erinn Hartman |
Event Date: November 11, 2009, 12:30-2:00
Speakers: Peter Maass, Karin Lissakers
On November 11, at 12:30 pm, the Revenue Watch Institute hosted a lunchtime discussion at the Open Society Institute with author Peter Maass about his new book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Knopf, 2009).
In Crude World, Maass examines "oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it," bringing stories of the so-called "resource curse" that transparency advocates have long discussed to a broader public. In Maass's reporting on "the troubled world oil has created," he explores debates over the size of remaining Saudi oil reserves; vast inequalities in the distribution of Equatorial Guinea's oil wealth; attempts to rebuild Iraq's oil industry; and Ecuadorians fighting Chevron in court. Maass is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, an award-winning chronicle of the Bosnian war.
Revenue Watch Director Karin Lissakers moderated a discussion with Maass about his book and reporting career.
DATE: November 11, 2009
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Open Society Institute, 400 W. 59th Street, New York, New York
RSVP TO: Rebecca Morse, rmorse@revenuewatch.org
LEARN MORE
- Crude World by Peter Maass (Knopf)
- Audio: The Oil and the Glory (Open Society Institute)
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