Finders Keepers?: How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry

by TerenceDaintith (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $63.73

  Adopts a historical and comparative perspective to show how legal rules, technical knowledge (or the lack of it) and political ideas combined to shape attitudes and behavior in the business of oil production, leading to the original adoption of the law of capture, its consolidation in the United States, and its marginalization elsewhere.