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A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy

Title
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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Description
x, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Primary commodities in the global economy
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9780521880206 (hardback)
  • 0521880203 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2007039547
  • 40015332267
OCLC
  • ocn173502772
  • SCSB-9034434
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries