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Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fluctuations not only for crude oil but also for the many other raw materials. Such trends mean that world commodity markets are once again under intense scrutiny. This book provides new insights into the modeling and forecasting of primary commodity prices by featuring comprehensive applications of the most recent methods of statistical time series analysis. The latter utilize econometric methods concerned with structural breaks unobserved components chaotic discovery long memory heteroskedasticity wavelet estimation and fractional integration. Relevant tests employed include neural networks correlation dimensions Lyapunov exponents fractional integration and rescaled range. The price forecasting involves structural time series trend plus cycle and cyclical trend models. Practical applications focus on the price behaviour of more than twenty international commodity markets. | Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

GBP 44.99
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Commodity Trade and Finance

Commodity Trade and Finance

What affects the supply of oil? How important is the weather in determining grain prices? Why has the price of copper skyrocketed? This unique book analyses the economics of key commodity groups including energy agriculture and metals. It examines the supply/demand fundamentals of several major and minor commodities physical characteristics production and consumption patterns trade flows and pricing mechanisms. It also explains the main tools used to hedge price risk such as futures options and swaps. This second edition has been fully revised and restructured and contains four new chapters including oil refining electricity and price risk management for energy metals and agricultural commoditiesThis book is an indispensable reference text for students academics and those working in the commodity business. | Commodity Trade and Finance

GBP 170.00
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Financial Modelling in Commodity Markets

Financial Modelling in Commodity Markets

Financial Modelling in Commodity Markets provides a basic and self-contained introduction to the ideas underpinning financial modelling of products in commodity markets. The book offers a concise and operational vision of the main models used to represent assess and simulate real assets and financial positions related to the commodity markets. It discusses statistical and mathematical tools important for estimating implementing and calibrating quantitative models used for pricing and trading commodity-linked products and for managing basic and complex portfolio risks. Key features: Provides a step-by-step guide to the construction of pricing models and for the applications of such models for the analysis of real data Written for scholars from a wide range of scientific fields including economics and finance mathematics engineering and statistics as well as for practitioners Illustrates some important pricing models using real data sets that will be commonly used in financial markets

GBP 44.99
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Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often used as inputs in the production of other products and commodity prices are notoriously volatile. Derivatives include forwards futures options and swaps; all are types of contracts that allow buyers and sellers to establish the price at one time and exchange the commodity at another. These contracts can be used to establish a price now for a purchase or sale that will occur later or establish a price later for a purchase or sale now. This book provides detailed examples for using derivatives to manage prices by hedging using futures options and swaps. It also presents strategies for using derivatives to speculate on price levels relationships volatility and the passage of time. Finally because the relationship between a commodity price and a derivative price is not constant this book examines the impact of basis behaviour on hedging results and shows how the basis can be bought and sold like a commodity. The material in this book is based on the author’s 30-year career in commodity derivatives and is essential reading for students planning careers as commodity merchandisers traders and related industry positions. Not only does it provide them with the necessary theoretical background it also covers the practical applications that employers expect new hires to understand. Examples are coordinated across chapters using consistent prices and formats and industry terminology is used so students can become familiar with standard terms and concepts. This book is organized into 18 chapters corresponding to approximately one chapter per week for courses on the semester system. | Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

GBP 69.99
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Persian Carpets The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

Persian Carpets The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object as a commodity and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a commodity which crosses the boundaries of private and public religious and secular culture and economy modern and traditional home and diaspora and art and commodity to tell the story of transnational interconnectivity. Bringing transnational feminist cultural studies ethnography and network studies within the same frame of reference this book sheds light on Orientalia as civilizational objects that emerged as commodities in the encounter between the West and the many directly or indirectly colonized Middle Eastern and West Asian cultures focusing on the specific example of Persian carpets as some of the most extensively valued and traded objects since colonial modernity. | Persian Carpets The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

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The Chemistry of Milk and Milk Products Physicochemical Properties Therapeutic Characteristics and Processing Methods

The Chemistry of Milk and Milk Products Physicochemical Properties Therapeutic Characteristics and Processing Methods

Milk and milk products are highly nutritious yet their low acidity provides a favorable environment for growth of pathogenic and spoilage-causing organisms. To avoid this milk requires specialized processes to be converted into various milk products to ensure safety and quality. This new volume provides an understanding of the manufacturing processes of milk products and the structural physicochemical and compositional changes that occur during manufacturing and storage of milk products and the impact on quality. It covers methods of conversion of milk into high-value concentrated extended shelf-life and easily transportable dairy products. It delves into the constituents and chemistry physicochemical properties and therapeutic characteristics of milk and milk products and then goes on to present specialized processing methods. Specialized methods such as proteolysis in ultra-high temperature (UHT) heat and acid coagulation of milk products processing and characteristics of dry dairy milk powders and methods to monitor pesticide residues in milk and milk products are presented and evaluated. | The Chemistry of Milk and Milk Products Physicochemical Properties Therapeutic Characteristics and Processing Methods

GBP 139.00
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On the Commodity Trail The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West

On the Commodity Trail The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West

Following the journey of eight bargain store objects Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society’s simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Along the way we observe raw materials on municipal rubbish dumps in China newly re-made products in the world’s largest wholesale market and take a journey across the seas to bargain stores in Europe and North America arriving finally in the homes of consumers. Weaving together narratives from the people we meet at different parts of the commodity chain – waste peddlers wholesalers store owners and shoppers – the book examines the places and people at the heart of these localized yet immense global networks. Unlike other investigations of commodity chains this study does not chart a straightforward trajectory from production to consumption. Instead it demonstrates that the low-end commodity chain is one of constant rupture in which products are made and re-made blurring the dividing line between producing and consuming. An ethnography of material culture as well as an examination of commodity culture at a time of economic downturn this deeply-engrossing book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of commodity chains and consumer culture. | On the Commodity Trail The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West

GBP 28.99
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Processing Technologies for Milk and Milk Products Methods Applications and Energy Usage

Processing Technologies for Milk and Milk Products Methods Applications and Energy Usage

The demand for quality milk products is increasing throughout the world. Food patterns are changing from eating plant protein to animal protein due to increasing incomes around the world and the production of milk and milk products is expanding with leaps and bounds. This book presents an array of recent developments and emerging topics in the processing and manufacturing of milk and dairy products. The volume also devotes a special section on alternative energy sources for dairy production along with solutions for energy conservation. With contributions for leading scientists and researchers in the field of dairy science and technology this valuable compendium coversinnovative techniques in dairy engineeringprocessing methods and their applications in dairy industryenergy use in dairy engineering: sources conservation and requirementsIn line with the modern industrial trends new processes and corresponding new equipment are reviewed. The volume also looks at the development of highly sensitive measuring and control devices have made it possible to incorporate automatic operation with high degree of mechanization to meet the huge demand of quality milk and milk products. Processing Technologies for Milk and Milk Products: Methods Applications and Energy Usage will be a valuable resource for those in those involved in the research and production of milk and milk products. | Processing Technologies for Milk and Milk Products Methods Applications and Energy Usage

GBP 82.99
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Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words The Social Life of Goods

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words The Social Life of Goods

In 1850 Charles Dickens founded Household Words a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851 the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative ' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular and the Victorian press more generally played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury. | Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words The Social Life of Goods

GBP 38.99
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Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt even kill millions of children and the window of opportunity to do something about it is rapidly closing. There is however a glimmer of hope that could turn into rays of sunshine. Water is a commodity and we have just come through some painful times dealing with the shortage of another commodity—energy. For those who lived through the energy crisis this book offers a brief trip down memory lane. | Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

GBP 51.99
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Commodities Fundamental Theory of Futures Forwards and Derivatives Pricing

Commodities Fundamental Theory of Futures Forwards and Derivatives Pricing

Since a major source of income for many countries comes from exporting commodities price discovery and information transmission between commodity futures markets are key issues for continued economic development. Commodities: Fundamental Theory of Futures Forwards and Derivatives Pricing Second Edition covers the fundamental theory of and derivatives pricing for major commodity markets as well as the interaction between commodity prices the real economy and other financial markets. After a thoroughly updated and extensive theoretical and practical introduction this new edition of the book is divided into five parts – the fifth of which is entirely new material covering cutting-edge developments. Oil Products considers the structural changes in the demand and supply for hedging services that are increasingly determining the price of oil Other Commodities examines markets related to agricultural commodities including natural gas wine soybeans corn gold silver copper and other metals Commodity Prices and Financial Markets investigates the contemporary aspects of the financialization of commodities including stocks bonds futures currency markets index products and exchange traded funds Electricity Markets supplies an overview of the current and future modelling of electricity markets Contemporary Topics discuss rough volatility order book trading cryptocurrencies text mining for price dynamics and flash crashes | Commodities Fundamental Theory of Futures Forwards and Derivatives Pricing

GBP 150.00
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Coffee Culture Local Experiences Global Connections

Coffee Culture Local Experiences Global Connections

Coffee Culture: Local experiences Global Connections explores coffee as (1) a major commodity that shapes the lives of millions of people; (2) a product with a dramatic history; (3) a beverage with multiple meanings and uses (energizer comfort food addiction flavouring and confection); (4) an inspiration for humor and cultural critique; (5) a crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment; (6) a health risk and a health food; and (7) a focus of alternative trade efforts. This book presents coffee as a commodity that ties the world together from the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations to the middlemen and processors to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about how the drink reached their hands. | Coffee Culture Local Experiences Global Connections

GBP 34.99
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Soy Globalization and Environmental Politics in South America

Soy Globalization and Environmental Politics in South America

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices serving as a key nexus in food–feed–fuel production that underpins the agribusiness–conservationist discourse of land sparing through intensification. Yet soy production is implicated in multiple problems beyond deforestation ranging from pesticide drift and contamination to social exclusion and conflicts in frontier zones to concentration of wealth and income among the largest landowners and corporations. This book explores in depth the complex dynamics of soy production from its diverse social settings to its transnational connections examining the politics of commodity and knowledge production the role of the state and the reach of corporate power in everyday life across soy landscapes in South America. Ultimately the collection encourages us to search and struggle for agroecological alternatives through which we may overcome the pitfalls of this massive transnational capitalist agro-industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies. | Soy Globalization and Environmental Politics in South America

GBP 38.99
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Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace Friends of the Earth WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region particularly for mineral ores soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation through boycotting certain products while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources. | Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

GBP 44.99
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Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society

Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society

Originally published in 1981 Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises. Through a synthesis of current discussions around various critical approaches to the urban question the book defines a general theory of urbanization and urban planning in capitalist society. It examines the conceptual preliminaries necessary for the establishment of capitalist theory and provides a theoretical exposition of the fundamental logic of urbanization and urban planning. It also provides a detailed discussion of commodity production and its effects on urban development.

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Physical Methods for Microorganisms Detection

Physical Methods for Microorganisms Detection

This volume presents detection and identification methods for bacteria and yeast. Chapters are written by expert laboratory practitioners and instrument makers and focuses on those methods that show widespread practical application such as ATP luminescence. Food applications include rapid detection and quantitation of bacteria in raw milk pasteurized milk other dairy products and raw meat. Other topics include brewing applications for beverages starter culture monitoring clinical analyses blood and urine analysis procedures analysis of aerosols bioprocess safety and biodeterioration. This book is a must for microbiologists in food quality labs and clinical labs. | Physical Methods for Microorganisms Detection

GBP 94.99
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The Global Copper Industry Problems and Prospects

The Global Copper Industry Problems and Prospects

Originally published in 1988. Copper is one of the most actively traded commodities. It is a crucial commodity for industrialised countries most of which depend on imports for their supplies. Copper is also the single most important export for many of the producer-countries. Changes in the patterns of the world trade in copper therefore have an important impact on many countries. This book surveys the state of the world copper industry as it was in the 1980s. It discusses the state of production demand and trade and assesses trends. Special emphasis is given to the outlook for over capacity prices and competitive structure. | The Global Copper Industry Problems and Prospects

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The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals)

The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1978. This book provides a simple systematic yet rigorous treatment of the key aspects of the pure theory of international trade and distortions. The opening chapter presents the standard two-factor two-commodity barter model of international trade and a comprehensive treatment of the important properties and relationships. The rest of the book consists of four sections: parts One and Two are devoted to an analysis of factor market imperfections and Parts Three and Four consider the trade-theoretical consequences of product market imperfections. A concluding chapter presents some generalised theorems. This book would be of interest to students of economics. | The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals)

GBP 31.99
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Protein Calories And Development Nutritional Variables In The Economics Of Developing Countries

Protein Calories And Development Nutritional Variables In The Economics Of Developing Countries

Production of world food supplies is related to more complicated socioeconomic variables than have previously been analyzed. Besides traditional inputs of land labor and fertilizer the technological capabilities and a variety of nutritional and other human capital components are significant independent variables in explaining agricultural production in the developing world. The integration of economic analyses with the concepts of nutritional science offers an expanded and effective means for analyzing the complex problems of agricultural production in nutritionally deficient countries. Bernard Schmitt traces the circular relationship between nutrition and human capital labor productivity food production and per capita consumption of calories and protein. He defines the basic nutritional terms that are most useful to economists in analyzing agricultural and foodrelated questions and provides examples that stress the importance of concentrating on nutritional quality as well as gross quantity. Transformations are used to convert quantities into basic nutritional components allowing more meaningful quantitative analyses in an econometric framework. Dr. Schmitt presents a flexible methodology for forecasting commodity production using it to make projections for the developing countries for each major commodity group and to test various policy alternatives such as extensive trade expanded food assistance programs substantial resource or input expansion further expansion of Green Revolution technology and development of alternatives to agriculture. Although he is certain that gains can be accomplished through population control and agricultural advances supplemented by alternative nutritional sources he concludes that conditions in nutritionally deficient countries are unlikely to improve on average through the mid-1980s. | Protein Calories And Development Nutritional Variables In The Economics Of Developing Countries

GBP 125.00
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Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data

Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data

Shipping flows – maritime ‘footprints’ – remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development. Additionally decision-makers lack a comprehensive view on how shipping flows can be measured analyzed and mapped in order to support their policies and strategies. This interdisciplinary volume drawing on an international cast-list of experts explores a number of crucial issues in shipping data estimation construction collection mining analysis visualization and mapping. Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling delivers several key messages. First that in a world of just-in-time delivery and rapid freight transit it is important to bear in mind the long-term roots of current trends as well as foreseeable future developments because shipping patterns exhibit recurrent if not cyclical and path-dependent dynamics. Second shipping flows are currently often understood at the micro-level of intra-urban logistics delivery and at the national level using commodity flow analyses but this volume emphasizes the need to expand the scale of analysis by offering new evidence on the changing distribution of global and international shipping flows based on actual data. Third that this multidisciplinary approach to shipping flows can shed important light on crucial issues that go beyond shipping itself including climate change urban development technological change commodity specialization digital humanities navigation patterns international trade and regional growth. Edited by experts in their field this volume is of upmost importance to those who study industrial economics shipping industries and economic and transport geography. | Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data

GBP 39.99
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Seafood Ocean to the Plate

Seafood Ocean to the Plate

Seafood draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies with case studies from different eras and geographic regions. Using familiar commodities this accessible book will help students understand cutting-edge issues in sustainability and ask readers to think about the future of an industry that has lain waste to its own resources. Examining the practical aspects of fisheries and seafood leads the reader through discussions of the core elements of anthropological method and theory and the book concludes with discussions of sustainable seafood and current efforts to save what is left of marine ecosystems. Students will be encouraged to think about their own seafood consumption through project assignments that challenge them to trace the commodity chains of the seafood on their own plates. Seafood is an ideal book for courses on food and culture economic anthropology and the environment. | Seafood Ocean to the Plate

GBP 35.99
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Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital ” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue that the current understanding of “value” must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties to capital while acknowledging the ways in which capital appropriates value. This is achieved by differentiating between “fetish value” created by capital and “true value” generated through various commons-based forms of coexistence. The authors propose a defetishization of value by rejecting the commonly accepted idea of its objectivity. They introduce their “commonist value theory ” which redefines capital as both the product and process of perverting the fundamental commoning causes of true value into sources of fetish value. Capital is theorized through a “modular” framework where multiple intersecting processes constitute a comprehensive power structure a “value regime ” representing an unprecedented degree of the domination of capital over life. Their theory reconciles two apparently incompatible views on the notion of value. One view encompasses all inputs involved in capitalist value production and conflates intrinsic and commodity values. The other warns against this conflation as it treats capital as an entity tightly associated only with commodity production and wage labor. The authors believe that establishing alternative forms of value creation based on normative principles of living in commons is crucial as an analytical base for criticizing existing power structures and economic systems. The book offers a theoretical foundation for transforming our life worlds toward “post-capitalist” futures. It appeals to scholars and students in various fields such as political economy capitalism and post-capitalist studies economic and political sociology globalization development studies social ecology and ecological philosophy. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

GBP 48.99
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