Back to j. M. Keynes in Regulating International Commodity Markets: an Extended Note on the "Transparency Agenda"
Journal Title: Journal of European Economy - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 4
Abstract
In this paper weak and strong forms of global governance of raw materials markets are compared. This is done by comparing the “transparency agenda” with the “structural reform agenda”. John Maynard Keynes has worked for decades academically on commodity markets, on speculation and storage, on forward markets and buffer stocks etc., but he has also practised commercial trading activity on various commodity markets, and he has written and/or influenced the Post-World War Two ICU/ITO (International Clearing Union/International Trade Organization) agendas which are containing detailed provisions for establishing a world order on commodity markets. He was very much interested in the relation between price volatility of raw materials and its impacts on global macroeconomics, but he was also convinced that appropriate regulations of commodity markets and sectors impact positively on peace and development. He was convinced that strong global governance must be based on simple, stable, effective, consensual and binding rules. Now the “transparency agenda” with regard of raw materials is so much debated but it is a rather weak form of global governance, while the “structural reform agenda” represents a rather strong form of global governance of the resources sectors. The “transparency agenda” is discussed in great detail in this paper while the “structural reform agenda” is considered in the Conclusions and Outlook section but needs further elaboration in a follow-up paper.
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Karl Wohlmuth
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