In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars …, our economy and policies. But just as thoroughly, culture saturates oil. So what exactly is "oil culture"? This book … how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination. The contributors to this volume examine the oil culture n …

substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …