Oil
Crude oil is the largest commodity market and the one with the deepest narrative literature, because its price history is inseparable from geopolitics.
10 books · 5 people behind it
Start here
- The PrizeDaniel Yergin, 1991
- Private EmpireSteve Coll, 2012
The people behind it 5
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 1
Journalists 4
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Daniel Yergin3 books hereGZ
Gregory Zuckerman1 book hereRC
Ron Chernownamed in their tags
Bethany McLeannamed in their tagsBooks 10
T1 The Prize
Daniel Yergin · 1991 · Pulitzer-winning history of oil, money and power; the standard work.
Steve Coll · 2012 · ExxonMobil as a state actor; the best single book on an oil major.
Anthony Sampson · 1975 · The pre-OPEC cartel of majors, written as the old order collapsed.
T2 The Quest
Daniel Yergin · 2011 · Sequel to The Prize covering energy security and the shift to alternatives.
T2 The Frackers
Gregory Zuckerman · 2013 · How wildcatters and shale debt rewrote US supply.
Matthew R. Simmons · 2005 · The peak-oil case against Saudi reserve claims; wrong but influential.
Robert McNally · 2017 · Argues price stability always required a swing producer or cartel.
T4 Oil 101
Morgan Downey · 2009 · Trader's technical primer on barrels, grades, refining and pricing.
Ken Silverstein · 2014 · Fixers, traders and middlemen in the oil trade.