What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war

This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American war. The analysis of a previously unseen dataset of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those ra...

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Main Author: Haggerty, Sheryllynne
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Published: Taylor and Francis 2018
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description This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American war. The analysis of a previously unseen dataset of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those raw cotton prices. By positing a definition of.an embryonic futures market and then analysing each of the features of a such a market in turn, this study demonstrates the existence of an embryonic futures market in early nineteenth-century Liverpool.
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spelling nottingham-484632020-05-04T19:33:17Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48463/ What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war Haggerty, Sheryllynne This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American war. The analysis of a previously unseen dataset of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those raw cotton prices. By positing a definition of.an embryonic futures market and then analysing each of the features of a such a market in turn, this study demonstrates the existence of an embryonic futures market in early nineteenth-century Liverpool. Taylor and Francis 2018-02-22 Article PeerReviewed Haggerty, Sheryllynne (2018) What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war. Business History, 61 (6). pp. 942-970. ISSN 1743-7938 Cotton Prices Liverpool Embryonic Futures Market Anglo-American War Nineteenth Century Providence United States Britain Raw Cotton Merchants Dealers Brokers Manufacturers Speculators https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146 doi:10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146 doi:10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146
spellingShingle Cotton Prices
Liverpool
Embryonic
Futures Market
Anglo-American War
Nineteenth Century
Providence
United States
Britain
Raw Cotton
Merchants
Dealers
Brokers
Manufacturers
Speculators
Haggerty, Sheryllynne
What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
title What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
title_full What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
title_fullStr What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
title_full_unstemmed What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
title_short What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war
title_sort what’s in a price? the american raw cotton market in liverpool and the anglo-american war
topic Cotton Prices
Liverpool
Embryonic
Futures Market
Anglo-American War
Nineteenth Century
Providence
United States
Britain
Raw Cotton
Merchants
Dealers
Brokers
Manufacturers
Speculators
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