Oil Pumps Alaska's Economy to Twice the Size - But What's Ahead?

Authors

• Oliver Scott Goldsmith

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Description

Oil money has driven most of the growth and paid for state government operations in Alaska for 40 years. We’ve all gotten used to that money, so it’s easy to underestimate how much of the state’s prosperity is built on oil. Think about this: without oil, the economy today would be only half the size. But now times are changing. The North Slope is producing just a third the oil it once did—and there’s a danger Alaskans will assume the state can keep going the way it is, without future oil development. Not true.

Publication Date

2-17-2011

Recommended Citation

Goldsmith, Oliver Scott, "Oil Pumps Alaska's Economy to Twice the Size - But What's Ahead?" (2011). Reports. 56.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_iser_reports/56

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4146