Explaining Metals Prices: Economic Analysis of Metals Markets in the 1980s and 1990s

by Paul W. MacAvoy

Book Overview

Work on this book began in the Spring of 1983, not long- after an Amax Corporation annual budget meeting. As a member of the Amax board of directors since 1979, I had been present at such meetings in which the molybdenum price had been forecast to move higher than $7.00 per pound. The actual annual average prices were $9.70 in 1980, $8.50 in 1981, and $4.00 in 1982. The forecast for 1983 called for prices to return to higher levels, but as both dealer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898382939
• ISBN13: 9780898382938
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"