Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso is one of the key intellectuals, politicians in general of the 20th century. But his way of thinking evolved very significantly from 1948 to the 1970s. In this phase he thought about the oil industry as a public service that should be recouped by the state. This is not maybe the most innovative phase but it is innovative if you think that today I was looking at Guiana,.
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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