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What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war

Haggerty, Sheryllynne

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Sheryllynne Haggerty



Abstract

This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American war. The analysis of a previously unseen dataset of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those raw cotton prices. By positing a definition of.an embryonic futures market and then analysing each of the features of a such a market in turn, this study demonstrates the existence of an embryonic futures market in early nineteenth-century Liverpool.

Citation

Haggerty, S. (2019). What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war. Business History, 61(6), 942-970. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 27, 2017
Online Publication Date Feb 22, 2018
Publication Date Feb 22, 2019
Deposit Date Nov 30, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Business History
Print ISSN 0007-6791
Electronic ISSN 1743-7938
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 61
Issue 6
Pages 942-970
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146
Keywords Cotton Prices, Liverpool, Embryonic, Futures Market, Anglo-American War, Nineteenth Century, Providence, United States, Britain, Raw Cotton, Merchants, Dealers, Brokers, Manufacturers, Speculators
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/912901
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146
Additional Information This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Business History on 22/02/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146

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