Commodities


The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Commodity Conversations: An Introduction to Trading in Agricultural Commodities
Oil 101
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Salt: A World History
Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodities Traders
Salt by Mark KurlanskyBanana by Dan KoeppelUncommon Grounds by Mark PendergrastEating the Empire by Troy BickhamCod by Mark Kurlansky
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Ivan Illich
In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure of society is arranged so that only the job gives access to the tools of production...Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodit ...more
Ivan Illich

Craig D. Lounsbrough
Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
Craig D. Lounsbrough

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