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Crude Politics - The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (Hardcover)
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Crude Politics - The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (Hardcover)
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"Paul Sabin has written a brilliant case study of how legal and
political choices construct 'free markets'. He shows how battles
over property rights, regulation, taxes, and highway and
environmental policy shaped the oil market and with it the future
of California's cities, roads, coastline and public finance.
Clear-headed, meticulous, and filled with the drama of momentous
conflicts between public and private interests, "Crude Politics" is
legal-economic history at its best."--Robert W. Gordon, Chancellor
Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale University
"Paul Sabinis lucid analysis of how the oil industry and the auto
industry shaped California's environment is a wonderful blending of
political economy and environmental history. Sabin convincingly
demonstrates how the market for oil, like all modern markets, was a
political creation whose ramifying and surprising effects from
freeways and pollution to state parks and public access to beaches
are all too often unrecognized."--Richard White, Margaret Byrne
Professor of American History, Stanford University
"To a much greater degree than most Americans usually appreciate,
the central story of the past century was the story of oil. Paul
Sabin's "Crude Politics" is a pioneering effort to trace for a
single key state--California--the evolving web of relationships
needed to sustain the production, distribution, and consumption of
a critical resource on which virtually every aspect of modern life
now depends. As we contemplate the waning future of that resource
in the twenty-first century, we would do well to heed the insights
about its twentieth-century past offered by this important
book."--William Cronon, author of"Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and
the Great West"
"Getting energy prices right is key to addressing our global
climate crisis. With graceful prose and forceful argument, Paul
Sabin shows how petroleum prices today are a product of more than a
century of fierce political struggle over oil supply and demand.
Anyone who wants to understand the political and economic factors
that have created our present dependence on cheap oil should read
this book."--James Gustave Speth, author of "Red Sky at Morning:
America and the Crisis of the Global Environment"
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