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First paperback edition, 1975.
Discusses the production of goods and services, including factors involving the labor force, the cost of service, and how it relates to the worldwide economy.
Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region. In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, the authors detail the Southeast Asian articulations of these processes while also discussing the broader implications of these shifts. Taken together, the cases show how commodities illuminate the convergence of changing social forces in Southeast Asia today, as they transform the terms, practices, and experiences of everyday life and politics in the global economy.
This important volume begins with a major survey of the field by the editors, followed by seminal papers on the empirical and historical importance of joint production.The topic of joint production theory has played a central role in neo-classical criticism of classical theory, in Sraffa's proposed rehabilitation of classical theory, and in some Sraffa-based criticisms of Marxian theory. This prominence is not surprising for joint production (and the related use of fixed capital) are major empirical features of the modern economy. The volume brings together for the first time major works - many of which are not easily available - on joint production by a range of English, French, German and Italian authors.
Commodities have become an important component of many investors' portfolios and the focus of much political controversy over the past decade. This book utilizes structural models to provide a better understanding of how commodities' prices behave and what drives them. It exploits differences across commodities and examines a variety of predictions of the models to identify where they work and where they fail. The findings of the analysis are useful to scholars, traders and policy makers who want to better understand often puzzling - and extreme - movements in the prices of commodities from aluminium to oil to soybeans to zinc.