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Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
Koray Caliskan
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Description for Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
Hardback. Presents an analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel understanding of global markets. This book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production depend, and provides an alternative approach to the analysis of pricing mechanisms. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 halftones. 4 line illus. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCB; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, "Market Threads" presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production depend, and provides an alternative approach to the analysis of pricing mechanisms. Drawing upon research from such diverse places as the New York Board of Trade and the Turkish and Egyptian countrysides, the book explores how market agents ... Read more
What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, "Market Threads" presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production depend, and provides an alternative approach to the analysis of pricing mechanisms. Drawing upon research from such diverse places as the New York Board of Trade and the Turkish and Egyptian countrysides, the book explores how market agents ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691142418
SKU
V9780691142418
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Ref
99-1
About Koray Caliskan
Koray Caliskan is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Istanbul.
Reviews for Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
"All in all, an intellectually exciting book which I thoroughly enjoyed reading."
Brenda Jubin, Reading the Markets blog "Market Threads' great scholarly contribution is in highlighting and minutely describing the empirics of power in market settings."
William Davies, Journal of Cultural Economy
Brenda Jubin, Reading the Markets blog "Market Threads' great scholarly contribution is in highlighting and minutely describing the empirics of power in market settings."
William Davies, Journal of Cultural Economy