In 1960 oil production had not started and that was just one building in Abu Dhabi. The rest of the so-called town was basically a group of tents or non-permanent constructions for fishermen who must have been 1,000 to 2,000. It's hard to imagine today how sparsely populated, poor and marginal these policies were compared to what we see today.
Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The first of a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world system.
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