For rulers whose territories are blessed with extractive resources - such as petroleum ... Mahdavi’s analysis of the domestic and global-economic milieu in which leaders like Qaddafi gambled on, and ...

Our extractive economic system relies on endless growth and exploitation and hurts ... Research conducted by the Pew Research Center found that more than 65% of people in the United States believe ...

Drawing insights from her book, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises, I recently interviewed Marjorie about what went wrong with ...