Abstract

List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements 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 primary 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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