Counter-shock : the oil counter-revolution of the 1980s / edited by Duccio Basosi, Giuliano Garavini and Massimiliano Trentin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1939 Fund.

Basosi, Duccio, 1974-

Garavini, Giuliano, 1976-

Trentin, Massimiliano

Series:

International library of twentieth century history ; 131.

International library of twentieth century history ; 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--History--20th century.

Petroleum industry and trade.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Contents:

Part I Oil Prices In Context

1 Price Regimes, Price Series and Price Trends: Oil Shocks and Counter-Shocks in Historical Perspective p. 15 / Giovanni Favero and Angela Faloppa

2 The Role of the Dollar and the justificatory Discourse of Neoliberalism p. 35 / David E. Spiro

3 The Oil Market and Global Finance in the 1980s p. 55 / Catherine R. Schenk

4 Counter-Shocked? The Oil Majors and the Price Slump of the 1980s p. 76 / Francesco Petrini

Part II The Producers: OPEC

5 Saudi Arabia and the Counter-Shock of 1986 p. 99 / Majid Al-Moneef

6 Iran and the Counter-Shock: Oil as a Weapon (for Survival) p. 117 / Claudia Castiglioni

7 Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Counter-Shock p. 140 / Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Part III The Producers: Non-OPEC

8 Abandoning Enforced Autarky for Re-Insertion in the World Petroleum Market: Mexican Oil Policy, 1976-86 p. 161 / Juan Carlos Boué

9 The Double Shock: The Soviet Energy Crisis and the Oil Price Collapse of 1986 p. 180 / Olga Skorokhodova

10 The Counter-Shock in Norwegian Oil History p. 199 / Einar Lie and Dag Harald Claes

11 Counter-Shock or After-Shock? North Sea Oil and Economics as Politics in the UK, 1973-86 p. 218 / Martin Chick

Part IV The Consumers

12 Reducing Dependence on OPEC Oil: The IEA's Energy Strategy between 1976 and the Mid-1980s p. 241 / Henning Türk

13 The United States and the Oil Price Collapse of the 1980s p. 259 / Victor McFarland

14 Back to the Future: Changes in Energy Cultures and Patterns of Consumption in the United States, 1973-86 p. 278 / Elisabetia Bini

Part V Energy And Environmental Challenges

15 The Rise of Environmentalist Movements and the Debate on Alternative Sources of Energy during the Oil Crisis in the United States p. 299 / Angela Santese

16 The Role of Nuclear Reactor Technology on the Development of the Nuclear Industry and Decision-Making in the Context of the Price Fluctuations of the 1970s and 1980s p. 317 / Duncan Connors and Eshref Trushin

17 A Small Window: The Opportunities for Renewable Energies from Shock to Counter-Shock p. 336 / Duccio Basosi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-374) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

178831333X

9781788313339

OCLC:

1014036201