Dieser Beitrag erläutert die realwirtschaftlichen Ursachen der starken Preisanstiege für Agrarrohstoffe in den Jahren 2007/8 und 2010/11. Er weist darauf hin, dass die schwe-ren Anschuldigen, finanzwirtschaftliche Akteure seien "Hungermacher" oder "Speku-lanten des Todes", gemessen am...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...