The Price of Infrastructure Myths

Global Markets by Karim Al-Mansour The Pipe and the Continent: A History of European Gas Grids There is a particular arrogance that attaches itself to infrastructure. We look at motorways, at undersea cables, at sewers beneath ancient cities, and we absorb them as permanent features of the world, as though they were geological rather than human in origin. We forget that someone had to argue for them, that someone else had to be defeated, that money changed hands under conditions that would...