Counter-shock
«The wide variety of perspectives adopted makes this volume complex and opens up important areas of future research ... A work that straddles economic history, political history and more specifically international relations, which illuminates in particular a significant historical junction to which contemporary history has not paid sufficient attention.»
Biblioteca (Bloomsbury translation)
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 their foreign debts peak. Les mer
picture and local study cases. In particular, it highlights the crucial interaction between the oil counter-shock and the political `counterrevolution' against state intervention in economic management, put forward by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the same period.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- I.B. Tauris
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 400
- ISBN
- 9781838608255
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
Anmeldelser
«The wide variety of perspectives adopted makes this volume complex and opens up important areas of future research ... A work that straddles economic history, political history and more specifically international relations, which illuminates in particular a significant historical junction to which contemporary history has not paid sufficient attention.»
Biblioteca (Bloomsbury translation)
«An important book, thoroughly crafted/planned by its editors [and] co-written by 20 contributors, mostly foreign and Italian academics.»
Alberto Clò, Energia (Bloomsbury translation)