The Reconfiguration of a Global Market The Rubber Economy, 1860-1960

这个项目涉及全球橡胶市场的出现和形成。该项目的起点是第二次工业革命期间这种农业经济作物的兴起。在商品链方法的帮助下，将分析1860年至1960年期间的市场参与者和结构。商业商业的典型案例研究。这些项目通过对大规模种植园和政治行为体的分析，探讨了这个全球市场在外部压力下如何运作和变化。一个特别的焦点是20世纪两次世界大战之间所谓的“去全球化”的影响。为了分析市场三种不同的生产系统，即。e.这些体系的平行存在和相互竞争不仅是供求关系的结果，而且也是商品链内外体制和技术变革的结果。

This project deals with the emergence and cnfiguration of the global market for rubber. The project's starting point is the rise of this agrarian cash crop during the second industrial revolution. With the help of the commody chain approach the actors and structures of the market will analyzed for the period 1860 to 1960. With exemplary case studies on mercantile businesses. large-scale plantations and political actors, the projects asks how this global market worked and changed under external pressure. One special focus is the impact of the so-called "de-globalization" in the interwar years of the 20th century. In order to analyze the market three different production systems, i. e. wild and plantation as well as synthetic rubber The parallel existence and the competition of these systems among each other were not only the result of supply and demand but also of institutional and technological transformations within and outside of the commodity chain.