A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy / Marian Radetzki.
By: Radetzki, Marian
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521880206 (hardback); 0521880203 (hardback).Other title: Primary commodities in the global economy.Subject(s): Primary commodities | Commercial policy | Primary commodities -- PricesDDC classification: 338.02 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prof. G. K. Chadha Library
South Asian University |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-225) and index.
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.