When Can Oil Economies be Deemed Sustainable?

Abstract

When can oil economies be deemed sustainable? We did not expect to find an unequivocal and final answer to this question when we set out collecting the chapters of this book, and in fact do not believe that an unequivocal and final answer exists. Our more modest purpose was to question a stereotype—that all Gulf economies are not sustainable—and start a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future.