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?This [book] has some virtues to recommend it. It is analytical. It refuses blanket condemnation or blanket praise for OPEC, the oil companies, or the oil-consuming countries. Ghosh (Rutgers) does tend to sympathize with the OPEC countries: he roots for the underdogs and is impressed with their handling of the oil industry, but the book is documented with lots of statistical tables to permit readers to make their own judgments. Treatment is hi...

A study of the financial performance of well-known firms over the past 25 years which compares the performance of these supposedly "excellent" firms with the financial performance and market valuation of a control sample from Fortune 500.

?In response to the price-raising actions of OPEC, nationalization of overseas concessions, and the diminution of reserves in the US, the US petroleum industry should have changed considerably in structure and scope of activities since the 1950s. The author explores whether these changes have occurred by examining the reports of all public US oil companies as summarized in standard commercial reference books. Ghosh notes that changes in the di...