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OCL
Volume 15, Number 4, Juillet-Août 2008
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| Page(s) | 228 - 234 | |
| Section | Développement – Économie | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl.2008.0216 | |
| Published online | 15 July 2008 | |
La spéculation sur les matières premières1
Sociologue et anthropologue
Abstract
What part has to be indebted to the financial speculation in the recent food an energy price inflation? Informations on this controversial question may be found through the works of different commissions of the US Senate. Particularly lights have been bring upon the mechanisms by which new speculators, made “investments” in the commodities futures market, and behave differently from the traditional speculators that have always existed in this marketplace.
Key words: commodities and oil price / financial speculation
Cet article est extrait du livre La Crise. Des subprimes au séisme financier planétaire, chapitre VIII, à paraître aux Editions Fayard (novembre 2008).
Paul Jorion, sociologue et anthropologue, a travaillé durant les dix dernières années dans le milieu bancaire américain en tant que spécialiste de la formation des prix. Il a publié récemment L’implosion. La finance contre l’économie (Fayard : 2008) et Vers la crise du capitalisme américain ? (La Découverte : 2007). http://www.pauljorion.com/blog/
© John Libbey Eurotext 2008
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