Crude volatility the history and the future of boom-bust oil prices
| Main Author: | McNally, Robert, 1963- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: |
Center on Global Energy Policy series
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Table of 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.