This book discusses the art and science of economic decision making. It combines logical thinking with analytics, economics, and finance to draw decision insights for the upstream petroleum projects. The book offers useful analysis skills for practitioners in industry, including analysts,...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Study- the Challenge of managing oil -- Chapter 2. Economic History of Oil Exploration and Production in T&T, 1857-2020 -- Chapter 3. History of oil refining in T&T -- Chapter 4. Natural Gas Production -- Chapter 5. Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease --...

1. Introduction: Ghana’s Petroleum Industry in Transition -- 2. Examining Ghana’s New Exploration and Production Act and Other Legislative Developments -- 3. The Ghana-Cote-d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute and Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Guinea -- 4. Upstream Petroleum...

The emergence and development of energy diplomacy -- The practice and theory of energy diplomacy -- The forefront of theoretical issues related to energy diplomacy -- A few basic fields of energy diplomacy -- The situation of international energy diplomacy -- Energy diplomacy of the major...

1. China and its New Position in the World Economy -- 2.China's Economic Growth and its Main Sources -- 3. The Growing Importance of China in Global Trade -- 4. FDI as a Driving Force of China's Expansion -- 5. The Importance of the Energy Sector in China's Growth Strategy -- Quo Vadis China

1. Introduction -- 2. Economics Policies, Paradigm Shifts and their Implications -- 3. Economic Development and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 4. Regional Integration, Trade and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 5. The Development of Infrastructure and Economic Growth -- 6. Projects of the Belt...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Changing International Financial System -- 3. International Economic Growth -- 4. The Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on China's Domestic Economy -- 5. Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Domestic Economies of Participating Countries -- 6. Effects of...

1. A Brief Economic History of Repeated Defaults -- 2. The Institutional Evolution and the Failed Modernizing Attempts -- 3. The Geostrategic Settings, National Resources, and the Systemic Risks -- 4. The Formation of Idiosyncratic Structure of Institutions and Culture -- 5. Sustainable...

Prolog -- Wirtschaftskrieg als neues ökonomisches Paradigma -- Die Geburt des Wirtschaftskriegs aus dem Geiste der Rivalität -- Das Menschen- und das Ordnungsbild im Wirtschaftskrieg -- Der institutionelle Rahmen des Wirtschaftskriegs -- Kooperative und agonale Theorien des Staats --...