Patricia Perkins

World Metal Markets (eBook, PDF)

The United States Strategic Stockpile and Global Market Influence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The United States holds strategic stockpiles of nearly 100 industrial minerals, metals, and other commodities. These stockpiles have influenced the world commodity markets in many ways. This work brings together in one place, documentary and statistical evidence about the size and nature of the U.S. strategic stockpiles, and the ways in which this influence has been evidenced, in markets for the important industrial metals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313370205
• Artikelnr.: 37830781

Autorenporträt

PATRICIA E. PERKINS is an Assistant Professor teaching environmental and ecological economics in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Perkins has worked in Brazil and Mozambique, taught economics at several North American institutions, and has served as policy advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables and Figures Abbreviations and Acronyms Preface Introduction:
Industrial Metals in the World Economy, the Strategic Stockpile, and Market
Dominance Stockpile History and Policy The Stockpile's Institutional and
Legal Framework The Growth of the Stockpile Stockpile Surpluses Stockpile
Policy and Market Effects Political Influence, Foreign Policy, and the
Stockpile The Stockpile and Market Disruption The Stockpile and Metal
Markets: Case Studies Aluminum/Bauxite Chromium/Manganese Copper Lead/Zinc
Tin Conclusion: The Stockpile's Market Influence Appendix: Modelling
Stockpile Effects in Metal Markets Bibliography Index