Globalizing Oil - Firms Oil Market Governance in France, Japan, United States

The first systematic investigation of changes in oil market governance in the advanced industrial democracies over the last three decades.

List of contents

Preface; 1. The puzzle of oil; 2. Oil markets and the physiocratic fallacy; 3. Explaining changes in oil market governance; 4. Transforming French oil market governance; 5. Adjusting oil market governance in Japan; 6. The United States and energy independence; 7. Firms, governments, and oil market governance; Appendix A. Liberalization in the advanced industrialized states.

About the author

Llewelyn Hughes is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington DC.

Summary

Oil is one of the world's most important commodities. This book is the first systematically to document and explain why governments across advanced industrialized democracies have changed the strategies they use to govern their oil markets over the last three decades.

Product details

• Authors: Llewelyn Hughes, Llewelyn (George Washington University Hughes, Hughes Llewelyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781107041998
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04199-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Business and Public Policy; Business and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, International Relations, Environmental Economics, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Petroleum, oil and gas industries, Energy industries and utilities