Commodity prices are very persistent. During booms we seem to forget that they have always (yes, always) been followed by busts (see Figure 1). And during a slump we forget that a boom is surely going ...

Commodity markets are integral to the global economy. Understanding what drives developments of these markets is critical to the design of policy frameworks that facilitate the economic objectives of ...

Many industries sell products that are essentially identical to those sold by competitors. These products are commodities -- they are interchangeable with products from other companies and compete for ...

Two of the most commonly accepted theories for the origin of money are the commodity theory and the chartalist theory. Both have drawbacks, but in recent years, the chartalist theory has gained much ...

My presentation will be quite different from the others you will hear at this forum. To attend a conference concerning the commodity in order to launch a polemic against the very existence of the ...

A review is made of the statistical generalization of microeconomics by Baaquie (Baaquie 2013 Phys. A 392, 4400–4416. (doi:10.1016/j.physa.2013.05.008)), where the ...

Commodity prices are very persistent. During booms we seem to forget that they have always (yes, always) been followed by busts (see Figure 1). And during a slump we forget that a boom is surely going ...