Highly Commended and Shortlisted in the State Library of NSW/Ashurst Business Literature Prize
This book charts the incredible success of Norway in transforming its non-renewable resources into a sovereign wealth fund designed to last for centuries to come. Trillion Dollar Baby documents the tenacity, skill and courage shown by the Norwegian people in standing up to oil giants and taking control of how the nation’s resources would be developed.
It includes interviews with the Iraqi-raised geologist Farouk Al-Kasim who told the American oil company where to drill, leading to the Norway’s first major discovery in 1974, and the deep-sea divers who worked at depths of more than 200m to lay pipelines so that Norway could benefit from downstream processing.
Reviews
- Flavio Menezes, The Conversation
- Adrian Walsh, Australian Review of Books
- Simon Caterson, The Australian
- Other reviews
Articles
Norway’s billion dollar Rockefeller lesson, The Australian