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Modern China’s Network Revolution
Chambers of commerce developed in China as a key part of its sociopolitical changes. In 1902, the first Chinese chamber of commerce appeared in Shanghai. By the time the Qing dynasty ended, over 1,000 general chambers, affiliated chambers, and branch chambers had been established throughout China.
In this new work, author Zhongping Chen examines Chinese chambers of commerce and their network development across Lower Yangzi cities and towns, as well as the nationwide arena. He details how they achieved increasing integration, and how their collective actions deeply influenced nationalistic, reformist, and revolutionary movements. His use of network analysis reveals how these chambers promoted social integration beyond the bourgeoisie and other elites, and helped bring society and the state into broader and more complicated interactions than existing theories of civil society and public sphere suggest. With both historical narrative and theoretical analysis of the long neglected local chamber networks, this study offers a keen historical understanding of the interaction of Chinese society, business, and politics in the early twentieth century. It also provides new knowledge produced from network theory within the humanities and social sciences.
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Design Quality, Mechanization and Taste in the British Textile Printing Industry, 1839–1899
This article considers the design debate in the printed-textile industry of the nineteenth century through an examination of textile samples, focusing on two key aspects: the need for design education and the development of diverging tastes between the upper and working-classes, and the effect of mechanization on design quality. This debate has dominated the historiography of printed textiles, yet is by no means exclusive to the textile industry. The aim of this article is not to assess the design quality of printed textiles produced in the North-West of England for the domestic market during the nineteenth century but to see the discussion of design quality in context and demonstrate how nineteenth-century ideas of design quality and taste were perpetuated throughout the twentieth century. Using the textile designs of Edmund Potter & Co. and Samuel Matley & Son found in the Board of Trade registers as a lens through which to unpack these issues, this article illustrates the value of examining the material evidence in relation to the design debate in the printed textile industry of the nineteenth century.
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The illusion of free markets : punishment and the myth of natural order
This work argues that our faith in 'free markets' has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices. Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural order to 18th-century economic thought and reveals its gradual evolution through the Chicago School of economics and ultimately into today's myth of the free market.
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Commodity Storage under Backwardation: Does the Working Curve Still Work?
We investigate storage in the presence of backwardation and the existence of the Working curve for Chicago Board of Trade corn, soybeans, and wheat markets and the Kansas City Board of Trade wheat market using 1990–2010 data. Two spread measures—the futures-spot and futures-futures—are matched with deliverable stocks on the first Friday of delivery. To account for grade and location aggregation issues, the futures-spot spreads are measured using the lowest spot bid and highest futures price. Storage in the presence of backwardation is pervasive both in terms of the percentage of observations and the magnitude of the stockholdings. The Working curve emerges most clearly in KCBT wheat and soybeans. Convenience yield is also supported by the negligible holdings of delivery shipping certificates in backwardations. Overall, the results show that the Working curve does indeed still work today. When evaluating policy proposals to deal with heightened price volatility in agricultural markets it is important that models incorporate this well-established relationship.
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A brief history of chambers of commerce in China
In 1904, China encouraged the business community to set up chambers of commerce in an effort to bridge the gulf between government officials and businessmen. They encouraged businesses to engage in industry and commerce, and to boost competitiveness with foreign capital investors. Over 45 years, spanning 1904 to 1949, Chinese chambers of commerce flourished and matured, and they played a key role in the structural and economic creation of modern China. This book documents the historical role of China's chambers of commerce.
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Effective Bid-Ask Spreads in Futures versus Futures Options
While considerable research has estimated liquidity costs of futures trading, little comparable research is available about options markets. This study determines effective bid-ask spreads in options and futures markets for Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) wheat. Effective bid-ask spreads are estimates of the actual liquidity cost of a round-trip order. Option liquidity costs are estimated using a new measure of effective spreads developed for options markets. Futures effective spreads are estimated using eight different measures developed in previous studies. Estimated effective bid-ask spreads of options contracts are at least double the effective bid-ask spreads of open-outcry futures contracts.
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Market threads
What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, Market Threads presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production depend, and provides an alternative approach to the analysis of pricing mechanisms.
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