This article sketches an ethics of (financial) speculation in futures markets. (1) It identifies an intentionalistic … fallacy prevalent in moral criticisms of speculation in general and of financial speculation in particular. (2) It scrutinizes … the degree to which the recent debate on financial speculation with agricultural commodities follows the general pattern …

financial speculation on the markets for agricul-tural commodities: According to this current state of research, there is little … evidence for the point of view that the recent increase in financial speculation has caused (a) the price level or (b) the …, claiming that financial speculation has detrimental effects and should be forbid-den, seems to be a false alarm: People who are …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey on the real economy factors … speculation on agricultural markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate - or inappropriate - for …

This article sketches an ethics of (financial) speculation in futures markets. (1) It identifies an intentionalistic … fallacy prevalent in moral criticisms of speculation in general and of financial speculation in particular. (2) It scrutinizes … the degree to which the recent debate on financial speculation with agricultural commodities follows the general pat …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy … speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate for im-proving global …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey on the real economy factors … speculation on agricultural markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate - or inappropriate - for …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey on the real economy factors … speculation on agricultural markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate – or inappropriate – for …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey of the real economy factors … that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation …