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Gabriel Tortella, Alfonso Ballestero, and José Luis Díaz Fernández. Del monopolio al libre mercado: La historia de la industria petrolera española [From Monopoly to the Free Market: A History of the Spanish Oil Industry]. Madrid, Spain: LID Editorial Empresarial S.L., 2003. 632 pp. ISBN 8-488-71732-6, X23.08.
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What interest can there be in the history of the petroleum industry of a country without oil, such as Spain? Can the lack of hydrocarbons be considered the main cause of its economic retardation? The discussion and the confutation of these two questions, which open the introduction, represent the subtle thread that runs throughout this book.
The volume reconstructs in very detailed and precise ways the history of the oil sector in Spain in
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