The newly introduced notion of oil rent has led to a more accurate understanding of the international oil industry. But the theory of rent isn't always analyzed correctly which brings about insuperable difficulties. The total oil rent doesn't include any monopoly rents, it is but a sum of differential rents whose maximum level is fixed by the reproduction price of U.S. coal. That rent whose existence is mostly independent of the agents involved entails the cartellization of the sector. Seen from that angle, excess profits made the cartel and not the other way round. The consumer States share in the total rent: they collect a significant part of it. What is called "the energy crisis" is, for the time being, but a serious problem of redistrib...
The valorization by producing countries of their gaseous hydrocarbon resources (natural gas and petr...
This paper presents a simple model of rent-seeking incentive to explain the emergence and dominance ...
Since early 2004, oil prices have increased by 50% as a combined result of a demand shock, tensions ...
The newly introduced notion of oil rent has led to a more accurate understanding of the internationa...
The aim of this article is to show that if the two oil revolutions in the 70's can be analyzed as a ...
Les performances économiques de la quasi-totalité des pays exportateurs de pétrole révèlent un phén...
Une version de ce document de travail a été reprise par la revue Problèmes Economiques, n°2902, 21 j...
This article highlights two particularities of ground rent determination and appropriation in the oi...
This paper exposes the concept of scarcity of oil and its links with the long-run change of producti...
Cet article est une version plus courte du document de travail du CEPN WP 07-2005Despite the widespr...
The (Economie) Thruth for Oil Price, by Christian Stoffaes The brutal price rises of 1973 and 1979 w...
This paper presents a simple model of rent-seeking incentive to explain the emergence and dominance ...
This work attempts to clarify the nature of the process of change that was unleashed in the internat...
The philosophy of modern, capitalist economies favours the pursuit or maximization of profit and fro...
Hotelling's theory of exhaustible ressources provides an explanation for the two last oil shocks. Wi...
The valorization by producing countries of their gaseous hydrocarbon resources (natural gas and petr...
This paper presents a simple model of rent-seeking incentive to explain the emergence and dominance ...
Since early 2004, oil prices have increased by 50% as a combined result of a demand shock, tensions ...
The newly introduced notion of oil rent has led to a more accurate understanding of the internationa...
The aim of this article is to show that if the two oil revolutions in the 70's can be analyzed as a ...
Les performances économiques de la quasi-totalité des pays exportateurs de pétrole révèlent un phén...
Une version de ce document de travail a été reprise par la revue Problèmes Economiques, n°2902, 21 j...
This article highlights two particularities of ground rent determination and appropriation in the oi...
This paper exposes the concept of scarcity of oil and its links with the long-run change of producti...
Cet article est une version plus courte du document de travail du CEPN WP 07-2005Despite the widespr...
The (Economie) Thruth for Oil Price, by Christian Stoffaes The brutal price rises of 1973 and 1979 w...
This paper presents a simple model of rent-seeking incentive to explain the emergence and dominance ...
This work attempts to clarify the nature of the process of change that was unleashed in the internat...
The philosophy of modern, capitalist economies favours the pursuit or maximization of profit and fro...
Hotelling's theory of exhaustible ressources provides an explanation for the two last oil shocks. Wi...
The valorization by producing countries of their gaseous hydrocarbon resources (natural gas and petr...
This paper presents a simple model of rent-seeking incentive to explain the emergence and dominance ...
Since early 2004, oil prices have increased by 50% as a combined result of a demand shock, tensions ...