A Prelude to the Foundation of Political Economy is a groundbreaking volume of theory and strategy on political economy and polity of the twenty-first century. Distilled in concrete terms, it elucidates the enigma of oil in view of the centrality of global social relations.

Autorentext
Cyrus Bina is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota (Morris Campus), USA. He is the author and co-editor of several scholarly books, including The Economics of the Oil Crisis, Oil: A Time Machine, and Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy; and has written more than two hundred scholarly and policy pieces. He has also spoken extensively to the international media on issues pertinent to global sea change. He is currently editing a three-volume work entitled International Economics: An Encyclopedia of Global Trade, Capital, Labor, Technology, and Innovation. Bina is a fellow of Economists for Peace and Security, and an editor for the Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. World Oil and the Crisis of Globalization 2. World of Modern Petroleum and the Oil Rent 3. OPEC: Beyond Political Battering and Economic Romanticism 4. The Globalization of Oil 5. Oil and Capital: 'Logic' of History and 'Logic' of Territory 6. Globalization of Energy 7. War, Oil, and Conundrum of Hegemony