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Crude Volatility : The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Center on Global Energy Policy SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231543682
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crude VolatilityDDC classification:
  • 338.2328
LOC classification:
  • HD9565.M363 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: The Texas Paradox -- I. The Long Struggle for Stability: 1859-1972 -- 1. And Then There Was Light: From Chaos to Order in the Kerosene Era (1859-1911) -- 2. No Rockefeller, No Peace: Boom-Bust Returns -- 3. Why Are Oil Prices Prone to Boom-Bust Cycles? -- 4. The Texas Era of Price Stability: U.S. Supply Controls and International Cartelization (1934-1972) -- II. The OPEC Era: 1973-2008 -- 5. The Birth of OPEC: 1960-1969 -- 6. OPEC Takes Control from Texas and the Seven Sisters: 1970-1980 -- 7. OPEC's Rude Awakening: 1981-1990 -- 8. OPEC Muddles Through: 1991-2003 -- 9. Twilight: OPEC's Power to Prevent Price Spikes Ebbs and Vanishes: 2004-2008 -- 10. Oil's Third Boom-Bust Era: 2009-? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Crafting an engrossing journey from the Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's Middle East, Crude Volatility shows how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Robert McNally explains how oil became so central to our world and why it is subject to such extreme price fluctuations.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: The Texas Paradox -- I. The Long Struggle for Stability: 1859-1972 -- 1. And Then There Was Light: From Chaos to Order in the Kerosene Era (1859-1911) -- 2. No Rockefeller, No Peace: Boom-Bust Returns -- 3. Why Are Oil Prices Prone to Boom-Bust Cycles? -- 4. The Texas Era of Price Stability: U.S. Supply Controls and International Cartelization (1934-1972) -- II. The OPEC Era: 1973-2008 -- 5. The Birth of OPEC: 1960-1969 -- 6. OPEC Takes Control from Texas and the Seven Sisters: 1970-1980 -- 7. OPEC's Rude Awakening: 1981-1990 -- 8. OPEC Muddles Through: 1991-2003 -- 9. Twilight: OPEC's Power to Prevent Price Spikes Ebbs and Vanishes: 2004-2008 -- 10. Oil's Third Boom-Bust Era: 2009-? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Crafting an engrossing journey from the Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's Middle East, Crude Volatility shows how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Robert McNally explains how oil became so central to our world and why it is subject to such extreme price fluctuations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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