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A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy

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A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy / Marian Radetzki.

Author

Radetzki, Marian.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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x, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Primary commodities in the global economy

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-225) and index.

Contents

The historical framework -- The geography of commodity production and trade -- Comparative advantage and the trade policy distortions -- Price formation and price trends in primary commodities -- The commodity exchanges, commodity investments and speculation -- The economics of exhaustible resource depletion -- Fears of and measures to assure supply security -- Producer cartels in international commodity markets -- Public ownership in primary commodity production -- The monoeconomies : issues raised by heavy dependence on commodity production and exports.

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