Reviews

"A very thorough and well-done analysis of oil (and gas) in Nigeria....Ahmad Khan includes detailed--and well-documented--analyses of the Nigerian "Upstream" (producing areas, oilfields, reserves, etc.) and "Downstream" (pricing, supply-demand factors, distribution, and storage information) sectors, plus a good overview of the political and institutional environments, foreign investor relations, the international trade and pricing aspects of Nigerian crude oil, a chapter on natural gas, and an excellent wrap-up chapter on oil and the economy."--Choice"Khan's work is...much to be welcomed...the value of this book lies in the comprehensive and detailed record it provides of the holders, location and production of the oil and gas concessions, the terms on which the concessions have been operated, and the marketing and pricing of the products...the book will be found extremely useful by anyone working on the Nigerian economy or on its history since the 1960s...the oil and gas sector, on which the Nigerian public revenues and foreign exchange receipts so critically depend, is in a parlous condition. This book provides essential background information for any attempt to analyse why."--Journal of African Economies"Many of the papers reflect the use of the new institutional economies to explain the nature of the Japanese firm and the sources of its competitive strength. They also display a laudable attempt to show the dependency between institutions, something which is important, but difficult, to do...The papers are not only theoretical and empirical studies of the Japanese case, they also often contain a comparative aspect...the account of the Japanese firm under the wartime planned economy given by Tetsuji O