Space, Oil and Capital: 42 (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy) - Hardcover

Labban, Mazen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415773911 ISBN 13: 9780415773911

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase in the demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the concentration of capital in, and the geographical expansion of, the production of natural resources, globalizing and intensifying the competition for the control of production and markets.

This book is an attempt to explain, at the theoretical and empirical level, the relationship between the production of oil and the process of inter-capitalist competition in the global economy, and why it is necessary to appreciate the underlying process of the social production of space in determining the access to and control of global oil production and world markets. It will appeal to those undertaking research in political economy, economic geography, resource geography and international relations.

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About the Author

Mazen Labban is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415773911
• ISBN 13: 9780415773911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192