The Great War and the transformation of the Atlantic copper trade

Delaney, Nathan

doi:10.1080/03585522.2017.1377633

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“…Waszkis, together with his son Peter, has also published a history of metal trading from antiquity to recent times (2003). In addition to these larger works, there are also articles dealing with aspects of the history of metal trading (Guex 1998;Ball 2004;Storli 2015;Delaney 2017).…”

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Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy

Boon

Storli

2023

Business History

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During the first global economy, commodity trading companies emerged as important organisers of the global trade in commodities. The article has four main aims. In the first part we introduce the existing literature, explain the basics of commodity trading and discuss theoretical concepts and frameworks for understanding the business. In the second part we present the context of the first global economy and discuss why specialised commodity traders started to become important in this period. In the third part we propose a research agenda for using the global value chain framework from institutional economics to provide an appropriate link between the agency of the trading companies and the structural drivers of trade globalisation. In the final part, we introduce the seven articles which make up the special issue.

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Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy

Boon

Storli

2023

Business History

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“…33 ("Private efforts" here presumably referred to rival companies based in enemy states, notably American copper companies. 34 ) Georg Simon, a merchant and leading figure in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, passed along a report from "a friend" who warned that the Western Allies had already contracted for much of the world's raw materials over the next several years. As a result, Germans would find-"most favored nation" clauses or tariff agreements notwithstanding-that there was simply not much raw material available on the market.…”

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“The World Will Have a New Face”: Germans and the Post-World War I Global Economic Order

Hamlin

2019

Cent Eur Hist

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World War I reshaped the international economy. This was, in part, the consequence of British mobilization of resources for its own war effort, which aligned producer interests around the world with those of the United Kingdom. But it was also a consequence of Western policy aimed at excluding German businessmen from global markets. German planners noted during World War I that Great Britain, in particular, was expressing an interest in continuing such exclusion after the war, with potentially enormous economic consequences for Germany. Combatting or preventing such an economic “war after the war” prompted German businessmen and politicians to support a series of policies that would have profoundly changed the institutions and norms of the prewar international economy. These policies ranged from imposing one-sided trade agreements, expanding the mark zone, and establishing German control over Eastern European industries and infrastructure, to creating shipping cartels and imposing compulsory raw material delivery agreements on the Western powers. The result of German efforts to direct trade and investment in ways preferable to the German state would have been a deeply politicized postwar international economy. The article argues that economic questions were thus a central component of German war aims, but that these were not fixed: they evolved over the course of the war in response to changes in the international economy, and they focused not on short-term emergencies but rather on longer-term structural changes.

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Forging cartels. A transatlantic perspective on business collusion and the interwar copper industry (1918–1940)

Declercq

2019

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The Great War and the transformation of the Atlantic copper trade

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy

Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy

“The World Will Have a New Face”: Germans and the Post-World War I Global Economic Order

Forging cartels. A transatlantic perspective on business collusion and the interwar copper industry (1918–1940)

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