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The secret financial life of food : from commodities markets to supermarkets / Kara Newman.
LIBRA HG6046 .N49 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Kara.
- Series:
- Arts and traditions of the table
- Arts and traditions of the table: perspectives on culinary history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commodity exchanges--History.
- Commodity exchanges.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--History.
- Agriculture.
- Food--History.
- Food.
- History.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- How does commodities trading work?
- The spice route
- The commodity that built a nation: corn futures
- Great grains
- Butter-and-egg men
- The mochaccino market: coffee, sugar, and cocoa
- Cattle call
- This little piggy made a market: the rise and fall of pork bellies
- When money grows on trees: produce futures
- Super soybeans
- The future of food futures? Contracts to consider.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231156707
- 0231156707
- 9780231527347
- 0231527349
- OCLC:
- 787506810
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