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Market threads : how cotton farmers and traders create a global commodity /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Çalışkan, Koray, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Colección:The Princeton economic history of the Western world Understanding the process of economic change
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is a world price? The prosthetic and actual worth of cotton
  • Market maintenance in the worlds of commodity circulation
  • Markets' multiple boundaries in Izmir, Turkey
  • A market without exchange: cotton trade in Egypt
  • Growing cotton and its global market in a Turkish village
  • Cotton fields of power in rural Egypt.