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Textbook. The importance in international trade of primary commodities (agricultural products, foodstuffs and raw materials).

Contributions by leading economists in the area of the economic analysis of primary commodity markets are brought together in this volume.

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 ...

Export restrictions represent an economic phenomenon that has existed for millenia.