Food commodity speculation, hunger, and the global food crisis : whither regulation

This thesis takes as its starting point claims that practices of financial speculation in commodity derivative markets were instrumental in the causation of the global food crisis in 2007-08. Adopting an approach informed by critical legal studies, I seek to challenge dominant conceptions about the...

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Main Author: Chadwick, Anna
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677626