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Counter-shock
The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s
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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. Compared to the much-debated 1973 `oil shock', the `countershock' has not received the same degree of attention, even though its legacy has shaped the present-day energy scenario. This volume is the first to put the oil `counter-shock' of the mid-1980s into historical perspective. Featuring some of the most knowledgeable experts in the field, Counter-Shock offers a balanced approach between the global
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.
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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 Clo, Energia (Bloomsbury translation) *