Routledge Library Editions: Commodities
Agricultural Commodity Markets: A Guide to Futures Trading
1st Edition
By Michael Atkin
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1989, this book is a clear and thorough guide to the workings and purpose of the futures markets. It begins by explaining the role of futures and options in agriculture and their uses in reducing risks and maximizing profits. The state of the futures industry in the USA, ...
Commodity Models for Forecasting and Policy Analysis
1st Edition
By Walter C. Labys, Peter K. Pollak
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1984 this book remains as relevant as when it was first published. At that time the oil crises of the 1970s and the growing international debt burden highlighted the extent to which events in primary commodity markets continue to influence the economies of developing and ...
Commodity Policies: Problems and Prospects
1st Edition
By Alasdair I. MacBean, D. T. Nguyen
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book discusses the key issues concerned with primary commodity trade worldwide. Primary commodities are crucially important for many developing countries because very often exports in just one or two primary commodities form the sole source of income for a ...
The Modern Plantation in the Third World
1st Edition
By Edgar Graham, Ingrid Floering
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1984, this was the first study to define and rationalise the character and functions of the plantation in the contemporary world. The author, Edgar Graham, was uniquely placed to do this having had long experience of Unilever’s plantations in West Africa, Zaire, Malaysia and...
Tin: Its Production and Marketing
1st Edition
By William Robertson
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1982, this book is a survey of the world tin industry up until the late 20th Century. The author used many scattered and hard to access journal sources in the course of the book’s research. The book gives a wide-ranging picture of the world tin market and discusses factors ...
International Commodity Control: A Contemporary History and Appraisal
1st Edition
By Fiona Gordon-Ashworth
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1984, at a time when international commodity control was brought from the periphery to the centre of international trade policy, this book provided a new and more comprehensive approach to, and an analytical appraisal of, international commodity controls, from their origins ...
Routledge Library Editions: Commodities
1st Edition
By Fiona Gordon-Ashworth, Michael Atkin, Edgar Graham, Walter C. Labys, Peter K. Pollak, Alasdair I. MacBean, D. T. Nguyen, William Robertson
February 20, 2024
Originally published between 1982 and 1989, the volumes in this set were written at a time of instability in the global commodity markets. Then, just as now with the effects of the war in Ukraine, these volumes highlighted the extent to which events in primary commodity markets continue to ...