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A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy / Marian Radetzki and Linda Wårell.
LIBRA HF1040.7 .R332 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radetzki, Marian, author.
- Wårell, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primary commodities.
- Commercial policy.
- Primary commodities--Prices.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 305 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The historical framework
- The geography of commodity production and trade
- Comparative advantage and the trade policy distortions
- The fossil fuels
- Price formation and price trends in commodities
- Commodity booms
- The commodity exchanges, commodity investments and speculation
- Sustainability and the threats of 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107129801
- 110712980X
- OCLC:
- 959080115
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