- University of California Press
Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940
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- Paul Sabin
- University of California Press
- Hardcover
- 9780520241985
- 9.32 X 6.52 X 1.13 inches
- 1.41 pounds
- Business & Economics > Industries - Energy
- English
Book Description
Sabin provides a powerful corrective to the enduring myth of free markets by demonstrating how political decisions affected the institutions that underlie California's oil economy and how the oil market and price structure depend significantly on the ways in which policy questions were answered before World War II. His concise and probing analysis casts fresh light on the historical relationship between business and government and on the origins of contemporary problems such as climate change and urban sprawl. Incisive, engaging, and meticulously researched, Crude Politics illuminates an important chapter in U.S. environmental, legal, business, and political history and the history of the American West.
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