1. 1. There are no recent extensive studies on the commodity agreements which may be described as thoroughgoing. Short surveys are given in Sir Sidney Caine, Prices for primary producers (2nd edn., London, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1966), who believes that price stabilization is too complex a matter to be tackled by any one device and that maximum play should be given to private action
2. 2. R.G. Hawkins, J. Epstein and J. Gonzales, Stabilization of export receipts and economic development - International commodity agreements and compensatory financing (New York, New York University, 1966), who consider commodity agreements inappropriate for net transfers to the underdeveloped world
3. 3. A.I. MacBean, Export instability and economic development (London, Allen & Unwin, 1966), Chapter 12, who discusses criteria for the effective operation of commodity agreements and finds that they have made little contribution to price stability
4. 4. H.G. Johnson, Economic policies toward less-developed countries (Washington, D.C. Heath, 1967), Chapter 5: the agreements are relatively inefficient as a means of taxing the richer consuming countries in order to raise resources for the development of the poor countries
5. 5. A.D. Law, International commodity agreements. Setting, performance and prospects (Lexington, Mass., D.C. Heath, 1975)