Crude volatility : the history and future of boom-bust oil prices / Robert McNally.
By: McNally, Robert [author.].
Series: Center on Global Energy Policy series.Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: 315 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780231178143 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History | Petroleum products -- Prices -- United States | Petroleum reserves -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.