Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The historical framework
- 2 The geography of commodity production and trade
- 3 Comparative advantage and the trade policy distortions
- 4 Price formation and price trends in commodities
- 5 The commodity exchanges, commodity investments, and speculation
- 6 The economics of exhaustible resource depletion
- 7 Fears of, and measures to assure, supply security
- 8 Producer cartels in international commodity markets
- 9 Public ownership in primary commodity production
- 10 The monoeconomies: issues raised by heavy dependence on commodity production and exports
- References
- Index
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The historical framework
- 2 The geography of commodity production and trade
- 3 Comparative advantage and the trade policy distortions
- 4 Price formation and price trends in commodities
- 5 The commodity exchanges, commodity investments, and speculation
- 6 The economics of exhaustible resource depletion
- 7 Fears of, and measures to assure, supply security
- 8 Producer cartels in international commodity markets
- 9 Public ownership in primary commodity production
- 10 The monoeconomies: issues raised by heavy dependence on commodity production and exports
- References
- Index
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- A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008