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Overview"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 from peasants to global merchants negotiate, accept, reject, resist, reproduce, understand, and misunderstand a global market. The book demonstrates that policymakers and researchers must focus on the specific practices of market maintenance in order to know how they operate. Markets do not simply emerge as a relationship among self-interested buyers and sellers, governed by appropriate economic institutions. Nor are they just social networks embedded in wider economic social structures.Rather, global markets are maintained through daily interventions, the production of prosthetic prices, and the waging of struggles among those who produce and exchange commodities. The book illustrates the crucial consequences that these ideas have on economic reform projects and market studies. Spanning a variety of disciplines, ""Market Threads"" offers an original look at the world commodity trade and revises prevailing explanations for how markets work." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Koray ÇalişkanPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780691142418ISBN 10: 0691142416 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 05 September 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAll in all, an intellectually exciting book which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. -- Brenda Jubin Reading the Markets blog All in all, an intellectually exciting book which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. -- Brenda Jubin, Reading the Markets blog Author InformationKoray alikan is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boazii University, Istanbul. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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