Market Threads : : How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity / / Koray Çalişkan.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 6 halftones. 4 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How to Study a Global Market
- Chapter 1. What Is a World Price? The Prosthetic and Actual Worth of Cotton
- Chapter 2. Market Maintenance in the Worlds of Commodity Circulation
- Chapter 3. Markets' Multiple Boundaries in Izmir, Turkey
- Chapter 4. A Market without Exchange: Cotton Trade in Egypt
- Chapter 5. Growing Cotton and Its Global Market in a Turkish Village
- Chapter 6. Cotton Fields of Power in Rural Egypt
- Conclusion: What Is a Global Market?
- Glossary
- References
- Index