Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

By M. Simmons. 2005

305 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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1. P. Victor
2. Ian D. Chapman
3. C. Carter
4. Aaron Smith
5. Gordon C. Rausser

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. Victor
2. Ian D. Chapman
3. Aaron Smith
4. Gordon C. Rausser

Citations in the corpus

• Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster (2008, background): “Several other writers have expressed views that are even more apocalyptic (Heinberg 2006; Kunstler 2005; Simmons 2005).”
• The end of Peak Oil? Why this topic is still relevant despite recent denials (2014, background): “Simmons (2005), Graefe (2009) and Micu (2010) also challenge Saudi Arabia's figures, arguing they may be overestimated and could peak soon.”
• American policy conflict in the greenhouse: Divergent trends in federal, regional, state, and local green energy and climate change policy (2007, background): “Others await a more calamitous trigger such as the ''peak oil'' effect to cause a significant national policy shift (Simmons, 2005; and Deffeyes, 2005).”
• Commodity Booms and Busts (2011, background): “Proponents of the peak oil hypothesis (e.g., Simmons 2005) claimed that global production of crude oil had peaked or was about to peak.5 A recent slowdown in the growth of crop yields also raised concern that agricultural supply would be unable to grow fast enough to keep real prices from rising…”
• Scraping the bottom of the barrel: greenhouse gas emission consequences of a transition to low-quality and synthetic petroleum resources (2007, unknown): “These uncertainties are vigorously debated, but a transition to substitutes for conventional petroleum is inevitable, whatever the timing and whether motivated by geologic, economic, environmental, or political difficulties (Adelman, 1995; O'Dell, 2004; Deffeyes, 2005; Huber and Mills, 2005; Kunstle”