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Crude volatility : the history and the future of boom-bust oil prices / Robert McNally.
LIBRA HD9565 .M29 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNally, Robert, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Center on Global Energy Policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
- Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- United States.
- History.
- Petroleum products--Prices--United States.
- Petroleum products.
- Petroleum products--Prices.
- Petroleum reserves--United States.
- Petroleum reserves.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 315 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the Texas paradox
- And then there was light: from chaos to order in the kerosene era (1859-1911)
- No Rockefeller, no peace: boom-bust returns (1912-1933)
- Why are oil prices prone to boom bust cycles?
- The Texas era of price stability: US supply controls and international cartelization (1934-1972)
- The birth of OPEC: 1960-1969
- The transformational seventies, part two: 1970-1980
- OPEC's rude awakening: 1981-1990
- OPEC muddles through: 1991-2003
- Twilight: OPEC's power to prevent price spikes ebbs and vanishes: 2004-2008
- Oil's third boom-bust era: 2009-?
- Epilogue: a challenge with no easy solution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231178143
- 023117814X
- OCLC:
- 950448234
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