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Counter-shock : the oil counter-revolution of the 1980s /

The oil price collapse of 1985-6 had momentous global consequences: non-fossil energy sources quickly became uncompetitive, the previous talk of an OPEC 'imperium' was turned upside-down, the Soviet Union lost a large portion of its external revenues, and many Third World producers saw the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Basosi, Duccio, 1974- (Editor ), Garavini, Giuliano, 1976- (Editor ), Trentin, Massimiliano (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Colección:International library of twentieth century history ; 131.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Counter-shock and counter-revolution by Duccio Basosi, Giuliano Garavini and Massimiliano Trentin
  • PART I: OIL PRICES IN CONTEXT
  • 1. Price regimes, price series and price trends: oil shocks and counter-shocks in historical perspective by Giovanni Favero and Angela Faloppa
  • 2. The role of the dollar and the justificatory discourse of neoliberalism by David E. Spiro
  • 3. The oil market and global finance in the 1980s by Catherine R. Schenk
  • 4. Counter-shocked? The oil majors and the price slump of the 1980s by Francesco Petrini
  • PART II: THE PRODUCERS: OPEC
  • 5. Saudi Arabia and the counter-shock of 1986 by Majid Al-Moneef
  • 6. Iran and the counter-shock: oil as a weapon (for survival) by Claudia Castiglioni
  • 7. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the counter-shock by 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 by Juan Carlos Boué
  • 9. The double shock: the Soviet energy crisis and the oil price collapse of 1986 by Olga Skorokhodova
  • 10. The counter-shock in Norwegian oil history by Einar Lie and Dag Harald Claes
  • 11. Counter-shock or after-shock? North Sea oil and economics as politics in the UK, 1973-86 by Martin Chick
  • PART IV: THE CONSUMERS
  • 12. Reducing dependence on OPEC-oil. The IEA's energy strategy between 1976 and the mid-1980s by Henning Türk
  • 13. The United States and the oil price collapse of the 1980s by Victor McFarland
  • 14. Back to the future: changes in energy cultures and patterns of consumption in the United States, 1973-86 by Elisabetta 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 by 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 by Duncan Connors and Eshref Trushin
  • 17. A small window. The opportunities for renewable energies from shock to counter-shock by Duccio Basosi
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.