The Financialisation of the Oil Market from 1980 to the Present Day
by
Angelos Gkanoutas-Leventis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book proposes that price volatility and speculation in the oil market originate from a decades-long process of financialisation. The author challenges mainstream critical accounts of the market that typically invoke the notion of a global oil shortage and so-called ‘peak oil’ arguments. Instead,...