WORLD COMMODITIES and WORLD CURENCY by Benjamin Graham (1944) |
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PREFACE | vii | |
FOREWORD BY IRVING KAHN | xiii | |
CHAPTERS |
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I. THE PROBLEM OF RAW MATERIALS | 1 | |
II. THE ISSUE OF CARTELS VERSUS FREE PRODUCTION | 13 | |
III. THE PARADOX OF THE STOCKPILE | 22 | |
IV. FORMER SOLUTIONS FOR THE RAW MATERIALS PROBLEM | 32 | |
V. A SPECIFIC PROPOSAL FOR INTERNATIONAL STABILIZATION OF RAW MATERIALS | 42 | |
VI. COMPOSITE STABILIZATION VERSUS INDIVIDUAL STABILIZATION | 57 | |
VII. THE CRITERIA OF A SATISFACTORY COMMODITY UNIT | 72 | |
VIII. COMMODITY STABILITY AND CURRENCY STABILITY | 83 | |
IX. COMMODITIES, GOLD, AND CREDIT, AS WORLD MONEY | 91 | |
X. COMMODITY-UNIT STABILIZATION AND OTHER ECONOMIC THINKING | 106 | |
CHAPTER NOTES | 123 | |
APPENDIX I. DATA RE WORLD PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS OF RAW MATERIALS | 142 | |
APPENDIX II. RELATIVE PRICE MOVEMENTS WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE PROPOSED COMMODITY UNIT | 145 | |
APPENDIX III. THE STORAGE ASPECT OF COMMODITY-RESERVE CURRENCY | 148 | |
APPENDIX IV-A COMMODITY RESERVE CURRENCY: A CRITIQUE (W.T.M. BEALE, JR., M.T.KENNEDY, AND W.J. WINN) |
151 | |
APPENDIX IV-B. THE CRITIQUE OF COMMODITY-RESERVE: A POINT-BY-POINT REPLY | 164 | |
APPENDIX IV-C. THE OBJECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL PRICE STABILITY (LORD KEYNES) |
170 | |
APPENDIX IV-D. THE OBJECTIVE OF LONG-TERM PRICE STABILITY | 173 | |
INDEX | 177 |
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