This article argues that financial market speculation with agricultural commodities is both valuable from an economic … to prohibit such speculation. However, this would be detrimental to the moral goal of improving the global food supply. …

Hunger in der Welt wirksam be-kämpfen will, muss realwirtschaftlich dafür Sorge tragen, dass das Angebot an Nah … 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 …

verlieren. (4) Im Geist kritischer Loyalität zur Zivilgesellschaft wird dieser besorgniserregende Befund in zwei konkrete … claim that financial speculation with agricultural commodities should be prohibited by regulation. A critical analysis of …

, die den Vorwurf als Fehl-Alarm zurückweisen und die Rolle der Zivilgesellschaft zur Förderung gesellschaftlicher …-society organizations, that index funds via their financial speculation with agricultural commodities have caused the food crisis in 2007 …

financial speculation that takes place on futures markets for agricultural commodities. …

from the supply side, biofuel production from the demand side, and speculation in commodity futures from the market side … speculation in commodity futures are not yet well understood. However, speculative trading in commodity futures should not be … nonmarket contexts that guide the behavioral and strategic choices of speculators. Whereas speculation caused by manipulative …

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 …