Community of Oil Exporting Countries - A Study in Governmental Co-Operation

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and their economic reliance on oil. This reliance comes with an unwillingness to leave their economic fate to the vagaries of competition, leading to co-operative schemes that protect them from trade receipt fluctuations. This book is a close reading of the situation, and the resulting co-operative efforts.

List of contents

1. The Problem and Its Setting  2. The Protagonists, and the Oligopoly Model  3. Co-operation among Oil Exporting Countries  4. Institutional Aspects of OPEC and OAPEC  5. The Joint Regulation of Production  6. Bargaining for Economic Benefits: Government Revenues  7. Bargaining for Economic Benefits: Terms of Trade  8. The Future of Co-operative Effort

About the author

Zuhayr Mikdashi

Summary

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and their economic reliance on oil. This reliance comes with an unwillingness to leave their economic fate to the vagaries of competition, leading to co-operative schemes that protect them from trade receipt fluctuations.

Product details

• Authors: Zuhayr Mikdashi, Zuhayr (University of Lausanne Mikdashi, Mikdashi Zuhayr
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032575803
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257580-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Oil Industry
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, International Relations, Middle East, macroeconomics, General & world history, Labour / income economics, Environmental Economics, Labour Economics, International Economics, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Transport industries, Middle Eastern history, Regional / International studies, General and world history, Economics of industrial organisation, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Microeconomics, Manufacturing industries, Econometrics, History and Archaeology, Development economics and emerging economies, Agribusiness and primary industries, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, Construction & heavy industry, Petroleum & oil industries, Economics of industrial organization, Econometrics and economic statistics, Energy industries and utilities, Construction and heavy industry, Primary industries