TY - BOOK AU - Radetzki,Marian TI - A handbook of primary commodities in the global economy SN - 9780521182645 (pbk.) : PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Primary commodities KW - Commercial policy KW - Prices KW - Commodity exchanges N1 - Originally published: 2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-225) and index; 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 ER -