Counter-shock The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s

Front Cover
Editor Biographies
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Counter-Shock and Counter-Revolution
PART I OIL PRICES IN CONTEXT
	1. Price Regimes, Price Series and Price Trends: Oil Shocks and Counter-Shocks in Historical Perspective
	2. The Role of the Dollar and the Justificatory Discourse of Neoliberalism
	3. The Oil Market and Global Finance in the 1980s
	4. Counter-Shocked? The Oil Majors and the Price Slump of the 1980s
PART II THE PRODUCERS: OPEC
	5. Saudi Arabia and the Counter-Shock of 1986
	6. Iran and the Counter-Shock: Oil as a Weapon (for Survival)
	7. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Counter-Shock
PART III THE PRODUCERS: NON-OPEC
	8. Abandoning Enforced Autarky for Re-Insertion in the World Petroleum Market: Mexican Oil Policy, 1976–86
	9. The Double Shock: The Soviet Energy Crisis and the Oil Price Collapse of 1986
	10. The Counter-Shock in Norwegian Oil History
	11. Counter-Shock or After-Shock? North Sea Oil and Economics as Politics in the UK, 1973–86
PART IV THE CONSUMERS
	12. Reducing Dependence on OPEC Oil: The IEA\'s Energy Strategy between 1976 and the Mid-1980s
	13. The United States and the Oil Price Collapse of the 1980s
	14. Back to the Future: Changes in Energy Cultures and Patterns of Consumption in the United States, 1973–86
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
	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
	17. A Small Window: The Opportunities for Renewable Energies from Shock to Counter-Shock
Bibliography
Index
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