The Price-Fixing of Copper

Lewis Kennedy Morse

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1918, vol. 33, issue 1, 71-106

Abstract: Fixing price to consumer of a commodity necessary for war, 72. — Necessitates regulation of distribution, 73. — Copper industry unique, 76. — A unified industry, 77. — Demand for American copper decreased at beginning of the war, later expanded, 79. — Copper became practically a "cornered" metal, 87. — Cooperative Committee on Copper appointed, 89. — Necessity for price-fixing becomes apparent, 92. — Sources of supply, 99. — Risks encountered in expanding production, 100. — Increasing cost due to war conditions, 103.

Date: 1918
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