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Want to understand more about what causes oil prices to rise, and their wider effect on the political economy of the United States and the world? Will it ever be possible to escape the clutches of the fossil fuel industry?Please join us for a five week class and discussion group centered around Adam Hanieh’s new history of oil, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. Together we will learn “how oil greases the wheels of global capitalism,” and where that comes into your own life, with instruction from economics professor Owen Steinberger. This is an accessible, community-oriented class featuring discussion, and supplemental reading with no prerequisites or prior knowledge required. Tuition is sliding scale. It supports the instructor and the bookshop.Classes start June 9 - July 7 6:00PM About the instructor: Owen Steinberger is an adjunct lecturer and professor of economics, specializing in Marxist political economy and economic history. He teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, where he received his masters degree in Spring of 2025. He also bakes bread. / contact: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:owen.steinberger@gmail.com">owen.steinberger@gmail.com</a>