Iran’s Oil, the Theory of Rent, and the Long Shadow of History

The modern oil industry is an outcome of a three-stage change in which the largest cartel in recent memory emerged secretly, thrived visibly, and collapsed onto itself just before the 1973-74 oil crisis. Iran was the first country in the Middle East where a colonial oil concession (D’Arcy, 1901) for...

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Main Author: Cyrus Bina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Éditions de la Sorbonne 2017-05-01
Series:Revue Internationale des Études du Développement
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ried/11647