Contents: Acknowledgements * IntroductionPart I: Terms of Trade of Primary Products1. R. Prebisch (1950), The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems2. H.W. Singer (1950), `The Distribution of Gains Between Investing and Borrowing Countries'3. John Spraos (1980), `The Statistical Debate on the Net Barter Terms of Trade Between Primary Commodities and Manufactures'4. D. Sapsford (1985), `The Statistical Debate on the Net Barter Terms of Trade Between Primary Commodities and Manufactures: A Comment and Some Additional Evidence'5. Enzo R. Grilli and Maw Cheng Yang (1988), `Primary Commodity Prices, Manufactured Goods Prices, and the Terms of Trade of Developing Countries: What the Long Run Shows'6. Pier Giorgio Ardeni and Brian Wright (1992), `The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis: A Reappraisal Independent of Stationarity Hypotheses'7. Michael Bleaney and David Greenaway (1993), `Long-run Trends in the Relative Price of Primary Commodities and in the Terms of Trade of Developing Countries'Part II: Commodity Price Instability8. Alasdair I. Macbean (1966), `The Prima Facie Case'9. Robert S. Pindyck and Julio J. Rotemberg (1990), `The Excess Co-Movement of Commodity Prices'10. Angus Deaton and Guy Laroque (1992), `On the Behaviour of Commodity Prices'11. Alfred Maizels (1992), `The Commodity Price Collapse of the 1980s' and The Impact on the Developing Countries'12. S.J. Leybourne, T.A. Lloyd and G.V. Reed (1994), `The Excess Co-movement of Commodity Prices Revisited'Part III: Stabilization Programmes 13. J.M. Keynes (1938), `The Policy of Government Storage of Food-Stuffs and Raw Materials'14. Richard Just, Ernst Lutz, Andrew Schmitz and Stephen Turnovsky (1978), `The Distribution of Welfare Gains from Price Stabilization: An International Perspective'15. David M.G. Newbery and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1981), `Summary of Findings'16. S.M. Ravi Kanbur (1984), `How to Analyse Commodity Price Stabilisation? A Review Article'17. Christopher L. Gilbert (1996), `International Commodity Agreements: An Obituary Notice'18. Brian D. Wright and Jeffrey C. Williams (1982), `The Economic Role of Commodity Storage'Part IV: Trade Shocks19. W.M. Corden (1984), `Booming Sector and Dutch Disease Economics: Survey and Consolidation'20. Wilfred Beckerman and Tim Jenkinson (1986), `What Stopped the Inflation? Unemployment or Commodity Prices?'21. Christopher L. Gilbert (1990), `Primary Commodity Prices and Inflation'22. David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning (1993), `Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Consequences and Policy Responses'Part V: Futures Markets23. Ronald I. McKinnon (1967), `Futures Markets, Buffer Stocks, and Income Stability for Primary Producers'24. Christopher L. Gilbert (1985), `Futures Trading and the Welfare Evaluation of Commodity Price Stabilisation'25. Gordon Gemmill (1985), `Forward Contracts or International Buffer Stocks? A Study of their Relative Efficiencies in Stabilising Commodity Export Earnings'Part VI: Sectoral Studies26. Takamasa Akiyama and Panayotis N. Varangis (1990), `The Impact of the International Coffee Agreement on Producing Countries'27. Ronald W. Anderson and Christopher L. Gilbert (1988), `Commodity Agreements and Commodity Markets: Lessons from Tin'28. Brent Borrell and Ronald C. Duncan (1992), `A Survey of the Costs of World Sugar Policies'29. Kees Burger and Hidde P. Smit (1989), `Long-Term and Short-Term Analysis of the Natural Rubber Market'30. Ke-Young Chu and Thomas K. Morrison (1984), `The 1981-82 Recession and Non-Oil Primary Commodity Prices'31. Walter C. Labys (1975), `Introduction: A Taxonomy of Commodity Models and Their Policy Applications'Name Index.