Oil-price spikes don't shock any more

摘要

CHRIS ALLSOPP, director of the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (OIES), never had any particular desire to get into energy. But it was thrust upon him. Having become an economics lecturer at Oxford University in 1967, he took a year out beginning in September 1973 to head the Economics Prospects Division of the OECD in Paris. For a while, things seemed to be running pretty smoothly.