The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0198832834
- ISBN-13
- 9780198832836
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 445
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Giuliano Garavini
Description
The most comprehensive history of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and of its members, this study takes the reader from the formation of the first petrostate in the world, Venezuela, in the late 1920s, to the global ascent of petrostates and OPEC during the 1970s, to their crisis in the late-1980s and early- 1990s.
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