Max Singer is a political analyst and co-founder of the Hudson Institute, known for his work on global development, demographics, and strategic affairs. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering topics such as energy policy, oil geopolitics, and global poverty. His writing often challenged conventional wisdom about resource scarcity and the developing world.
IN 1980 MOST EXPERTS agreed that oil prices could only go up. Following the panic of the Iranian revolution, the price spiked to more than $80 a barrel adjusted for inflation. I gained some notoriety at the time by publishing an article with William Brown, a Hudson Institute colleague, in the Wall…
Baghdad
OVERESTIMATES OF ARAB OIL POWER are an important and harmful influence on policy toward the Middle East. The following myths, or outdated facts, support the world's misjudgment of the power of the Persian Gulf oil producers--especially Saudi Arabia, but also Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf states. (1)…
AT FIRST GLANCE at the World Bank's 1997 World Development Report is very depressing. The latest numbers make it look as if the old claim is true, that "the poor are getting poorer" around the world. But numbers don't always mean what they seem to.