Discover how seven companies controlled 85% of global oil after WWII, operating like sovereign powers until OPEC and nationalization movements broke their dominance and transformed the energy landscape.
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The Seven Sisters story teaches us that monopolies are ultimately human institutions that depend on specific political, technological, and economic conditions. When those conditions change—and they always do eventually—even the most powerful monopolies can find themselves scrambling to adapt or facing obsolescence.
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