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Leif Wenar on Trade and Tyranny
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Jan 10, 2016
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Podcast episode
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Where does our oil come from? Does it matter? Leif Wenar, author of the recent book Blood Oil, argues that Western democracies are compromising themselves by buying either directly or indirectly from vicious tyrants.
Released:
Jan 10, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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