Commodity Trading Companies during the First Global Economy, 1870-1914

Workshop at Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3-4 February 2017.

Call for papers.

Full preliminary program.

Session 'Commodity Exchanges during the Age of Financialization'

20th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association, Bergen, Norway, 25-28 August 2016

Espen Storli: Introducing the future: from producer list prices to futures markets in the non-ferrous metals industries in the 1970s

Session 'Trading Commodities during the Cold War'

20th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association, Bergen, Norway, 25-28 August 2016

Marten Boon: The Producer and the Middleman: The Role of Intermediaries in Russian Oil Exports, 1980s-2000s

Session 'Commodity, Trading and Trading Companies'

Association of Business Historians / Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte joint conference 2016, Berlin, 26-28 May 2016. 

Marten Boon: Deuss’ demise: an oil trader’s struggle to keep up with the market, 1970s-1990s

Gwendolyn Claire Lin: Diversification strategies of Noble Group and the transformation of the commodity trading industry, 1990-2010

Session 'Speculation Institutionalized'  

Business History Conference annual meeting 2016,  Portland OR, USA, 31 March - 2 April 2016.

Espen Storli: Making Markets: From Listed Prices to Spot Markets in International Commodity Markets in the 1970s

Making Markets: Commodity Grading and Trading in the Modern World, 1750-2015

Workshop at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2015, funded by the Peder Sather Center.

Find the program here.

The Hidden Companies of the Global Economy

Inaugural Workshop at NTNU, Trondheim, 17 June 2015.

See Workshop program.