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Commodity Booms
Marian Radetzki, Linda Wårell
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Abstract
The phenomenon of commodity booms is the focus of this chapter. Lately commodity booms have attracted a lot of attention from academic researchers, but also from producers, industry investors and other actors with an interest in the production and consumption of primary commodities. The chapter starts with the definition of commodity booms. Three commodity booms in the period since the Second World War are identified and described in the chapter.