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What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
Get PDFThis article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American war. The analysis of a previously unseen dataset of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those raw cotton prices. By positing a definition of.an embryonic futures market and then analysing each of the features of a such a market in turn, this study demonstrates the existence of an embryonic futures market in early nineteenth-century Liverpool
Small Business U.S.A.: The Role of Small Companies in Sparking America's Economic Transformation. By Steven Solomon. (New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. 358 pp. Appendixes, notes, and index. $19.95.)
No full textA Liverpool Merchant House: Being the History of Alfred Booth and Company, 1863-1958. By A. H. John. London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1959. Pp. 197. 21s.
No full textKing Cotton and his Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800–1925. By Harold D. Woodman. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 386. $9.75.
No full textThe First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1914. By Peter Mathias. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Pp. xiv + 493. $10.00.
No full textResearch in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. I. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1976. Pp. v, 379. Individuals, 22.50.
No full textMerger Movements in American Industry, 1895–1956. By Ralph L. Nelson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959. Pp. xxi, 177. $5.00.
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Growth in America. Edited by Chester L. Cooper. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 262. $15.00.
No full textThe Sinews of American Capitalism: An Economic History. By Clark C. Spence. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964. Pp. xii, 344. $6.00.
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