World Metal Markets: The United States Strategic Stockpile and Global Market Influence

by Patricia Perkins

Overview

The United States holds strategic stockpiles of nearly 100 industrial minerals, metals, and other commodities. These stockpiles have influenced the world commodity markets in many ways. This work brings together in one place, documentary and statistical evidence about the size and nature of the U.S. strategic stockpiles, and the ways in which this influence has been evidenced, in markets for the important industrial metals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275942588
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/28/1997
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

PATRICIA E. PERKINS is an Assistant Professor teaching environmental and ecological economics in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Perkins has worked in Brazil and Mozambique, taught economics at several North American institutions, and has served as policy advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface
Introduction: Industrial Metals in the World Economy, the Strategic Stockpile, and Market Dominance
Stockpile History and Policy
The Stockpile's Institutional and Legal Framework
The Growth of the Stockpile
Stockpile Surpluses
Stockpile Policy and Market Effects
Political Influence, Foreign Policy, and the Stockpile
The Stockpile and Market Disruption
The Stockpile and Metal Markets: Case Studies
Aluminum/Bauxite
Chromium/Manganese
Copper
Lead/Zinc
Tin
Conclusion: The Stockpile's Market Influence
Appendix: Modelling Stockpile Effects in Metal Markets
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Within a global geopolitical, environmental, and social context, Perkins (environmental and ecological economics, York U., Ontario) investigates the economic and to some extent the political implications of stockpiling metals by the world's largest stockpiler country. Her main interest is in the details of interactions between actors in the public and private sectors, how political considerations are brought to bear in specific situations, and the complexities of bargaining processes for the control of metals. She appends traditional statistical analysis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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