In the first half of 2008, the world was facing the highest food price levels in 30 years and a global food insecurity crisis. Although international food prices have since fallen, they are still abov
Black and gray markets for body parts are illegal, but also pioneering and inventive. Although this type of criminal activity requires dexterity and innovation, these markets thrive and flourish, sometimes in view of law. On the other hand, altruistic procurement is mired by low participation, which encourages black market transactions. Thousands of patients die each year waiting for an organ or bone marrow donation through the altruistic procurement system, so some turn to the dark side. This book offers a frank discussion of altruism in the global body market. It exposes how researchers exploit their patients' ignorance to harvest tissue samples, blood, and other biologics without consent, chronicles exploitation in the name of altruism, including the non-consensual use of children in dangerous clinical trials, and analyzes social and legal commitments to the value of altruism - offering an important critique of the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and oth
A leading figure in commodities helps individual investors capitalize in the commodities market as global demographic shifts drive prices upExplores the fundamentals and technicals that determine comm
Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize the dominance of global market imperatives and others highlight the market's reliance upon extra-economic coercion and state violence. At the Margins of the Global Market engages in this debate through a comparative and world-historical analysis of the labour regimes of three global commodity-producing subregions of rural Colombia: the coffee region of Viejo Caldas, the banana region of Urabá, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguán. By drawing upon insights from labour regimes, global commodity chains, and world historical sociology, this book offers a novel understanding of the broad range of factors - local, national, global, and interregional - that shape labour conditions on the ground in Colombia. In doing so, it offers a critical new framework for analysing labour and development dynamics that exist at the margins of the global market.
Praise for INTERMARKET ANALYSIS "John Murphy has done it again. He dissects the global relationships between equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities like no one else can, and lays out an irrefuta
"As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant.
大宗商品市場在全球經濟活動中的地位牽一髮而動全身，與實體經濟的關係愈來愈密切。從趨勢看，中國內地大宗商品和其衍生品市場在全球的影響力持續提升，其對外開放程度也穩步提高。 本書是市場上第一本把大宗商品現貨與期貨市場融合分析，同時梳理全球與中國大宗商品市場發展脈絡、探討多渠道推進中國大宗商品市場開放的中、英雙語著作，由在相關領域具有豐富業務經驗的專業人士，圍繞三大主題：「全球大宗商品市場的格局」、「內地與香港大宗商品市場的演變」、「大宗商品現貨與期貨市場的互聯互通」作了深入分析，讓市場參與者對整個大宗商品市場的宏觀系統和金融生態圈獲得整體的認識，更好地促進大宗商品現貨與期貨交易良性互動，服務實體經濟。 The commodities market is now so closely linked to the global economy that a small change in the former will trigger the butterfly effect on the latter. We can see a trend of continuous increase in the global influence of Mainland China’s commodities physical and derivative markets, and the increasing opening-up of the Mainland markets. This book is the first bilingual title in the market that gives an integrated analysis of the commodities spot and futures market and the development of the global and Mainland commodities markets, and explores the multiple ways for advancing the opening-up of the Mainland commodities market. Experts who are experienced in these areas discu
The use of derivative products in risk management has spread from commodities, stocks and fixed income items, to such virtual commodities as energy, weather and bandwidth. All this can give rise to so-called volatility and there has been a consequent development in formal risk management techniques to cover all types of risk: market, credit, liquidity, etc. One of these techniques, Value at Risk, was developed specifically to help manage market risk over short periods. Its success led, somewhat controversially, to its take up and extension to credit risk over longer time-scales. This extension, ultimately not successful, led to the collapse of a number of institutions. The present book, which was originally published in 2002, by some of the leading figures in risk management, examines the complex issues that concern the stability of the global financial system by presenting a mix of theory and practice.
The use of derivative products in risk management has spread from commodities, stocks and fixed income items, to such virtual commodities as energy, weather and bandwidth. All this can give rise to so-called volatility and there has been a consequent development in formal risk management techniques to cover all types of risk: market, credit, liquidity, etc. One of these techniques, Value at Risk, was developed specifically to help manage market risk over short periods. Its success led, somewhat controversially, to its take up and extension to credit risk over longer time-scales. This extension, ultimately not successful, led to the collapse of a number of institutions. The present book, which was originally published in 2002, by some of the leading figures in risk management, examines the complex issues that concern the stability of the global financial system by presenting a mix of theory and practice.
One of the largest food commodities exported from the developing countries to the rest of the world, cocoa has gained increasing attention on the global market—raising many questions about its quality
