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16.8.2. Commentary and Notes to Text 16.8.1

1. средний уровень товарных цен — average level of community price(s)

2. процент на капитал — interest on capital (on principal)

3. номинальная заработная плата — nominal wages

4. оборот внешней торговли — foreign trade turnover

5. добыча и потребление угля — production and consumption of coal

6. производство чугуна и свинца — production of cast iron and lead

7. повышательная волна — upward wave

8. понижательная волна — bearish wave

9. состояние отклонения — the state of deviation

10. средняя продолжительность цикла — average duration of a business cycle

11. стимулировать научно-технический прогресс

12. рост ссудного процента — growth of loan interest, interest on loan capital, rate of interest,

borrowing rate

16.9. Oral Practice. Round Table

Hold a business exchange of opinions.

In this unit we touched upon the subject of the cyclic nature of economic development. We have

acquainted ourselves with the concept of long-term cycles, or long waves theory named after Nicolas

Kondratieff, and some modem trends of business activity.

Express your views on the following issues:

1. What are the reasons for the reduction in duration of business cycles?

2. In what way do regulating measures of nations and individual companies affect the development

of the business cycle?

3. Do industrial countries of Europe, North America, and Asia go through identical phases of the

cycle nowadays?

4. In what way, in your opinion, do manifestations of the world crisis affect Russia?

16.10. Written Practice

Summarize the unit in a paragraph of about 300—350 words.

Unit 17. The Commodity Market Situation

17.1. Preview Basic notions

In this unit we will examine different classification marke signs (feattures)

of commodity markets and familia r i z e o u r s e livndeisc awtori t(hin dveaxr)ious

estimated figures, charact e r i z i n g t h e smtruacrktuerte s, iptuatatteironn. aed tr

turnover economy vector phase (stage) sphere

17.2. Warm-up

Before you start reading the unit think and try to answer the following questions:

1. What commodity markets are most oftenmentioned in business news? Why?

2. What can the indices of the internal turnover show?

3. How would you characterize the state of a nation’s economy if the growth vector of capital

investment began to decrease?

17.3. Rapid Reading (skimming, scanning, reading for general understanding

of the basic Text 17.4)

Work in pairs or small groups.

1. Quickly skim the text to find that part of it which contains the information about indices that

can be referred to the sphere of material production.

2. How are commodity markets classified according to the structure of national economy?

3. Find the part of the text saying about the most important index of the market economic situation.

Is your partner of the same opinion?

4. Compare and discuss the information you have just read with that gained at your specialized

lectures on the subject of the unit.

17.4. Basic Text. The Commodity Market Situation

A commodity market is a system of economic links between producers and consumers of goods.

A market is created whenever potential sellers of a good or service are brought into contact with

potential buyers and a means of exchange is available. The medium of exchange may be money or

barter. Exchange agreements are reached through the operation of the laws of supply and demand.

In traditional economics (Marshall, A.) a market is characterized by a single prevailing price for

commodities of uniform quality (law of one price). This is not necessarily the same as the business

view — the market is a collection of selling opportunities; or the legal view; where the market is a

trading zone free of artificial restrictions on transactions.

At the same time the commodity market is a field of competition between producers and consumers.

Commodity markets form national markets, and market relations beyond the state borders

form international commodity markets.

There is a great variety of national economies and commodity markets located in all regions of

the world. Each of these markets has its own conditions of the formation, organization structure

and the factors developing the economic situation.