Scarcity and wealth revisited: perspectives on commodity markets in the 21st century

Thesis

This thesis explores a selection of the ways in which an era of high mineral commodity prices - commonly dubbed the 'super-cycle' of the 2000s - is reshaping the map of global commodity markets. It pursues this agenda through three research aims: (1) to recast the relationship between geophysical resource supply, prices, and markets; (2) to examine some of the institutions that channel and benefit from resource wealth; and (3) to 'open the black box' of the commodity price formation proces...

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Authors: McGill, S; Sarah M. McGill

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: natural resource scarcity; phosphate; mining industry; commodity markets
• Subjects: Geography