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<journal-id>0185-1667</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Investigación económica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Inv. Econ]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-1667</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Economía]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-16672002000300153</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[El poder de las grandes empresas petroleras: 1900-1950]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The power of the major International Oil Companies: 1900-1950]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mora Contreras]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jesús]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Los Andes Departamento de Economía ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Mérida ]]></addr-line>
<country>Venezuela</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2002</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2002</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>62</volume>
<numero>241</numero>
<fpage>153</fpage>
<lpage>183</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-16672002000300153&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-16672002000300153&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-16672002000300153&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Entre 1900 y 1950 las grandes corporaciones petroleras internacionales lograron imponer a los propietarios del recurso natural en el Medio Oriente y en Venezuela las normas y procedimientos que regulaban contractual y legalmente las actividades de exploración y explotación de petróleo. Lograron además crear un cartel inter­ nacional de empresas productoras para dividirse el mercado entre ellas e imponer a los consumidores un sistema de fijación del precio mundial del "crudo".]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Between 1900 and 1950, the major international oil companies managed to success­ fully impose a contractual and legal governance concerning the ancient oil concessions on the owners of Middle Eastern and Venezuelan natural resources. They also succeeded in creating an international cartel in order to divide the market among them and enforce a single basing point pricing system for crude oil.]]></p></abstract>
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