The Influence of Price Strategies of Great Corporations and of OPEC States on a Developement of the Oil Crisis

The author analyses a role of price strategies of the world oil market monopolists in a developement of the energy crisis. A distinction between primary and direct reasons of that crisis can be made upon the analysis of evolution, of stimulants of those strategies in the post-war period. The first ones are related to the directions of a long term effect of price strategies of the Oil cartel corporation upon a principle of profit maximization. The others are resulting from the increasing effectiveness of price variable stimulant realization in the producer States. A connection between those two groups of causes is manifested in the generation of structural conditions in the demand and supply sphere of the oil market by means of the corporation price strategies. They facilitated the increase of effectiveness of the OPEC States price strategy effects. Favorable short run conditions in the beginning of the seventies visualized the particular effect of that relation i.e. high increase in the oil prices. The origin and the substance of the recent oil crisis lay in the effects of the above relations.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201