How should a seller price her goods in a market where each buyer prefers a single good among his desired goods, and will buy the cheapest such good, as long as it is within his budget? We provide efficient algorithms that compute near-optimal prices for this problem, focusing on a commodity market, where the range of buyer budgets is small. We also show that our LP rounding based technique easi...

One of the important socioeconomic tasks of governments is regulation. Regulation literature focuses on government intervention in the market for regulating the amount of production and distribution of a commodity, which can lead to the determination of the structure and rules governing the market. A commodities exchange is one of the most important regulatory agencies, which, by providing a co...

Focusing on coca, coffee, gold, soy, sugar, and tea, articles in a special issue of the Austrian Journal Historical Studies 30/3 (2019) Global Commodities aim at tracing emergence commodity chains through expansion contraction frontiers. Frontier shifts imply complex – potentially conflicting interactions shaped by as well shaping socio-natural systems. Thus, contributions reveal their frontier...

The impact of the dependence on primary commodities for economic development is analysed within the framework of growth regressions. While there is no evidence of a " generalized " primary commodity curse, reliance on primary commodities does retard growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Which factors account for this SSA specificity? Some suggest that SSA specializes in commodities that are not c...

Background Uganda was one of seven countries in which the United Nations Commission on Life Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) initiative was implemented starting from 2013. A nationwide survey was conducted in 2015 to determine availability, prices and affordability of essential UNCoLSC maternal and reproductive health (MRH) commodities. Methods The survey at health facilities in Uganda was conduc...

Because current literature on globalization largely neglects racism, it fails to explain the experiences of contemporary African American youth within the new racialized social class formations of globalization. I suggest that because African American youth live within the borders of the sole remaining world superpower, their experiences might shed light on social class relations of advanced ca...