TY - BOOK AU - Radetzki,Marian TI - A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy AV - bR126a 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge [u.a.] PB - Cambridge Univ. Press KW - Primary commodities KW - Commercial policy KW - Primary commodities / Prices KW - Rohstoffweltmarkt N1 - 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; Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-225) and index ER -