{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Philip Delves Broughton: The Oil Crisis That Changed the World And Why It Matters Today - 310 - Alain Elkann Interviews","description":"THE POWER OF OIL. Philip Delves Broughton is a British author, journalist and former foreign correspondent whose writing explores the worlds of business, leadership, ambition and human behaviour. Educated in Classics at Oxford University, he spent a decade at The Daily Telegraph, serving as its Paris and New York correspondent. He went on to write the international bestseller Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School, an insightful and often humorous account of his experience studying for an MBA at Harvard. His other books include The Art of the Sale, which examines the psychology and culture of selling. His new book Embargo: Six Months That Changed the World is a non-fiction geopolitical book published in October 2026 by Hutchinson Heinemann in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US. \u201cWhat begins as a dispute over oil becomes a much broader reordering of economic and strategic relationships.\u201d \u201cIt is tempting to imagine that oil simply poured money into Saudi Arabia and made everyone happy. In reality, it placed extraordinary strains on individuals and on the society.\u201d \u201cSaudi Arabia is still governed by a ruling family rather than through a democratic system, and patronage shapes how resources are distributed, so social mobility can be constrained.\u201d https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/philip-delves-broughton\/ ","author_name":"Alain Elkann Interviews","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/","html":"